Sendmail FileSystem alias permissions issue ?
 

Hello friends,

I have a setup a file system alias in aliases file for sendmail as under.

abuse: /var/spool/mail/abuse.report

Now it works when i give 666 permissions to the /var/spool/mail/abuse.report but if i give permissions as 777. I know i don't need also to give 777 permissions but just out of curiosity i want to know what makes it fail. In the sendmail logs it says "Can't create output " when the permissions are 777.

Hi,

Sendmail is a bit tricky with permissions.
Have a look at "Redirecting To Files" here for an explanation in your case.
You should also change the permissions to that file to 600 and ownership to the user:group that runs sendmail (usually daemon:daemon)

Regards

Thanks Bathroy.