On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Richard Jones wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up a redundant mailservers using coda, sendmail,
> procmail (with Maildir), courier-imap etc.
>
> I've managed to get procmail to deliver to user accounts by running cron
> jobs which refresh the tokens for both an admin and test user. However
> despite restricting permissions on the home directory I'm still getting
> loads of "World writable directory" errors in my maillogs:
>
> > [test_at_daedalus] ~ $ cfs la .
> > System:Administrators  rlidwka
> >                  test  rlidwka
> >
> > [test_at_daedalus] ~ $ ls -lod .
> > drwx------  5 test  nobody  - 2048 Jun  2 15:57 .
>
> maillog excerpt:
>
> > Jun  2 17:06:38 daedalus sm-mta[45584]: h52G6bRj045584: forward /coda/home/test/.forward.daedalus+: World writable directory
> > Jun  2 17:06:38 daedalus sm-mta[45584]: h52G6bRj045584: forward /coda/home/test/.forward+: World writable directory
> > Jun  2 17:06:38 daedalus sm-mta[45584]: h52G6bRj045584: forward /coda/home/test/.forward.daedalus: World writable directory
> > Jun  2 17:06:38 daedalus sm-mta[45584]: h52G6bRj045584: forward /coda/home/test/.forward: World writable directory
>
> I've tried creating the files listed with 0000 perms which makes no
> difference.

As I recall, sendmail applies the "world-writable directory" test to every
directory in the path, so it could be that /coda or /coda/home (or, heaven
forbid, /) are showing up as being world-writable.

It's been a while since I played with Coda, so I can't offer any
suggestion as to how you'd fix the problem.

Brian
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