[ILUG] Procmail / vacation problem...

[lbedford at wbtsystems.com]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 02:26:29PM +0000, Ronan Kirby wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> This is bugging me, because I have come across it before and can't
> remember how to fix it %-(
> 
> I'm using the linux vacation auto responder on an system with sendmail
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|/usr/bin/vacation testuser"
>     (expanded from: <testuser at domain.org>)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 550 /home/ronnie/.forward: line 1: "|/usr/bin/vacation testuser"...
> Address <testuser at domain.org> is unsafe for mailing to programs
> 
Is the file group writable? If so, then you have two options...
1) Chmod g-w .forward
2) Add O DontBlameSendmail=groupwritableforwardfile 
(or something similar) to /etc/sendmail.cf (or the mc file)..

L.
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