Re: [cobalt-users] Sendmail world - writeable directory

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Gerald Waugh wrote:

> what do you make of this???
> 
> Jan 23 23:57:24 fsn1 sendmail[25929]: XAA25927: forward
> /var/spool/mail/.forward.fsn1: World writable directory 

That happens when some clown spammer tries to send email addressed to
'mail' , sendmail gets slightly confused and looks in the spool directory
for a user account ;P 

It's annoying, but harmless...(The spool is world writable from sendmail's
point of view at the point it's doing this, so it has every right to
complain, but it really shouldn't have tried to look there in the first
place)

Of course, if cobalt would give us a newer version of sendmail....;P

gsh