In Landon Fuller's reply, T Ingham was quoted as saying:
I'm having a hell of a time setting up sendmail and having it run. I
realize that this is probably not the best place to post a message
asking for assistance on the issue, but I'm kind of at a loss.
...
I've followed the instructions on the oreilly site for setting up
sendmail, but I still get errors regarding directory permissions. So
I've set both my queue directories temporarily to world writable and
now I don't get permissions errors (of course)
If you are still having this problem, you may want to ensure that your
/etc/sendmail.cf contains this option:
O DontBlameSendmail=ClassFileInUnsafeDirPath
before any file options, in particular:
Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names
are set. Sendmail doesn't like any group-writable directories in the
path of any file; this was originally set up to avoid security problems
related to forward (.forward) files but applies to other contexts as
well. This opens up the restriction in a limited way.
The reason I use it is that I keep my root dir (/) group-writable so
that I can manipulate system-level things easily by group membership,
without having to log in as root (which you can't conveniently do in
some OS X contexts).
The option is not clearly documented: /usr/share/sendmail/conf/README
mentions DontBlameSendmail but not the ClassFileInUnsafeDirPath thing.
I found that in a very handy Sendmail Operation Guide at:
Good luck!
-^-rdj-^-
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