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From: jsol@bbncca.ARPA (Jon Solomon)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: sendmail fluke
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Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 14:47:55 EST
Article-I.D.: bbncca.1155
Posted: Tue Nov 20 14:47:55 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Nov-84 04:33:17 EST
Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
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Greetings fellow netters,

	Can anyone shed some light on a problem I just discovered in
sendmail? It has to do with mailing to files. Apparently Sendmail
will not deliver to a file directly, it has to be in the alias file.
This is fine, except that sendmail creates files of protection 600
in the /usr/spool/mail directory and future incantations of sendmail
simply won't append to a file with that protection. We get back
messages which say "Can't create output".

	Does anyone know what we can do about it (we currently don't
have sources to sendmail, but I wouldn't mind hearing about fixes)?
What I have to do now is make sure the files are created and have a
protection of 622 (which allows users to truncate mailboxes).

Thanks,
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[--JSol--]

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