Filer Admins,

We have unix home directories on our filer.
We just noticed today that sendmail reports that the .forward files are in a "World writable directory" and that the user directory is "unsafe directory path, marked unsafe".  (These are sendmail errors - I'm at LogLevel=99 for sendmail).

Then the mail is delivered locally to the box as opposed to forwarded. 

Now, my directories are not world writeable!  So, I'm wondering what permissions aren't being read correctly.  I can fix sendmail by changing the sendmail.cf to include "DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileinunsafedirpath", but am interested in the underlying issues here.

We are running different versions of sendmail.  The host that I've been testing on is running 8.11.6

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jim Surlow
Billing & Customer Care
Lucent Technologies