24.9.39.6 DontBlameSendmail=FileDeliveryToSymLink
Ordinarily, sendmail will not append mail to files that are symbolic links to other files.
Although V8.10 correctly checks the path to the link and to the pointed-to file, it still will
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not append mail to suchfiles. If sendmail attempts to deliver to a file that is a symbolic link,
it will bounce the message with an error such as this:
/path
(reason: can't create (user) output file)
Here, path is the full pathname to the file that is a symbolic link. If you need to maintain
symbolic links for administrative reasons, you can enable this item. When you enable the
FileDeliveryToSymLink item you increase risk but allow sendmail to deliver to files that are
symbolic links.
24.9.39.7 DontBlameSendmail=ForwardFileInGroupWritableDirPath
In general, the path to a user??™s home directory, and that home directory, should be writable
only by root or that user. There are circumstances, however, when groups of users or
pseudousers must share a single home directory. In such an instance, it might be desirable
for them all to have writable permission to that directory. This can be done by
enabling group write permissions. If you do, however, sendmail will begin to reject the
common ~/.
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