Article:		Configuring sendmail on Jaguar
Subject:		Sendmail still complaining about world writable, localhost refuses port 25 connection
Date:		2003-05-13 08:04:52
From:		anonymous2
Response to: Sendmail still complaining about world writable, localhost refuses port 25 connection
You have to check the permissions on / and all the subdirectories like /etc, /etc/mail for write permissions. If there is no write permission on / or /etc then give the write permissions and check. This will set the permissions for every directory sendmail needs to be non-group writable: sudo chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue /private Check all these permissions are same as below. drwxr-xr-x 45 root   sys     3584 Feb 3 10:24 etc drwxr-xr-x  2 root   mail     512 Feb 3 11:54 mail -rw-r--r--  1 root   bin     153 Sep 30 10:24 Mail.rc -rw-r--r--  1 root   bin     1201 Sep 30 10:24 aliases -rw-r--r--  1 root   mail      0 Oct 10 04:58 aliases.dir -rw-r--r--  1 root   mail    1024 Oct 10 04:58 aliases.pag -rw-r--r--  1 root   bin     5266 Sep 27 19:07 helpfile -rw-r--r--  1 root   bin      0 Sep 24 2001 local-host-names -rw-r--r--  1 root   bin     1829 Sep 30 10:19 mailx.rc -r--r--r--  1 root   bin    34924 Sep 30 10:24 main.cf -r--r--r--  1 root   bin    35625 Oct 1 05:09 sendmail.cf -r--r--r--  1 root   other   35625 Oct 1 05:09 sendmail.cf.pre110615-05 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root      8 Sep 30 10:24 sendmail.hf -> helpfile -r--r--r--  1 root   bin    35625 Sep 30 10:24 subsidiary.cf -rw-r--r--  1 root   bin      5 Sep 24 2001 trusted-users

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• Sendmail still complaining about world writable, localhost refuses port 25 connection
  2005-12-22 06:18:12  microbix [View]
  
  
  edit manually file sendmail.cf
  
  nano -w /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
  
  replace line Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names with line
  Fw-o /etc/mail/local-host-names
  identically (if you got the same error for trusted-users)
  
  Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users
  with line Ft-o /etc/mail/trusted-users
  i spent 4 hours to see that. if you rebuild sendmail.cf from sendmail.mc you can modify the last file (sendmail.mc) to suit your needs
  
  i recommend to you to use webmin (install with yum) for simpler sendmail administration
• Sendmail still complaining about world writable, localhost refuses port 25 connection
  2010-07-01 09:19:22  Harshad Mahajan [View]
  
  
  Thanks a lot.
  
  It worked for me as well.
  
  
• Sendmail still complaining about world writable, localhost refuses port 25 connection
  2006-03-13 13:01:25  rtantti [View]
  
  
  This worked!!! Thanks.

• Sendmail still complaining about world writable, localhost refuses port 25 connection
  2003-07-11 13:06:35  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  > sudo chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue /private
  
  I understood that the purpose of:
  
  define(`confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL', `GroupWritableDirPathSafe')
  
  Was so that changed to the filesystem permissions were not nessacary. I've followed the tutorial here:
  
  http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/09/10/sendmail.html
  
  and I'm having the same result. Even though the dont_blame option is set sendmail still refuses to start.