Mail delivery problem on my server

[Madison Kelly]

Thank you, both! I will apply those setting and see how things go.

Madison

William Park wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:08:00PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> 
>>At 11:22 AM 10/30/2003 -0500, Madison wrote:
>>
>>> The only other thing I have noticed is that, for some reason, some of 
>>>the mail account spool files on the server have the group "mail" set 
>>>where most of the others have both owner AND group set to their 
>>>name/group. Finally, a couple other accounts had been changed to 
>>>permission -rw------- (0600) where most again where -rw-rw---- (0660). I 
>>>tried changing my own 'mkelly' file to owner/group mkelly and setting the 
>>>permissions back to 0660 but the message still bounced.
>>
>>I just checked the settings/permissions on a SunOS box I have access to 
>>since I don't run Sendmail on Linux anymore. The directory which contains 
>>the files with the received mail has settings of 755 and chown of root.mail 
>>while the files in the directory are all 660 and chown'ed <user>.mail where 
>><user> is a user ID as listed in /etc/passwd.
> 
> 
> Same on my Slackware,
>     /var/spool/mail		-- 1777 root:mail
>     /var/spool/mail/*		-- 660 user:mail
>     /var/spool/mail/root	-- 600 root:mail
> 

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