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Sendmail user question

Hi All

I am trying to deal with a problem. Any suggestions would be helpful!

I have sendmail running on a Redhat 8 box and is serving about 75 e-mail accounts. Version Info:
OS:Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
sendmail-8.12.8-9.80
sendmail-cf-8.12.8-9.80

There are a few users that need pop accounts so I have created user accounts on the system for them. I have however made /var/spool/mail as the home directory for all of them.

The other users are essentially aliases to these few accounts.

I keep getting the following in the maillog:

Oct 31 10:32:08 Spitfire2 sendmail[23123]: j9VFW8i7023122: forward /var/spool/mail/.forward.localhost: Group writable directory
Oct 31 10:32:08 Spitfire2 sendmail[23123]: j9VFW8i7023122: forward /var/spool/mail/.forward: Group writable directory

Does this have something to do with the setup I have? I have read the FAQ on the sendmail site that tells me to set the following option, to get rid of this message:
DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileingroupwritabledirpath

Is there a way to have users logon to their pop3 accounts to download without having user accounts on the mail server?

Please advice!

Thanks

KS
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SENSIBLE-MDA(8) 					      System Manager's Manual						   SENSIBLE-MDA(8)

NAME
sensible-mda - a generic local MDA router for Debian systems SYNOPSIS
sensible-mda from to detail client-addr DESCRIPTION
sensible-mda is used to simplify the installation and configuration of sendmail(8) , or other MTAs for use on Debian systems. With sensi- ble-mda, sendmail can support a plethora of MDAs (procmail, maildrop, deliver, etc.) without having pick any one of them as required. FUNCTION
sensible-mda is called by sendmail as a local mailer when the following exists in sendmail.mc: define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS', `sensible-mda $g $u $h ${client_addr}')dnl sensible-mda will look for the following MDAs (in this order), and pass the mail on to the first SUID MDA found (Or first found MDA, if run w/euid=root): procmail(1), maildrop(1), deliver(8), mail.local(8) OPTIONS
Available command line options are the following: from The sender of this email (sendmail $g variable) to The recipient of this email (sendmail $u variable) detail The detail portion of the recipient userid (sendmail $h variable) - ie: cowboy+sendmail@debian.org client-addr TCP/IP address of the sender (sendmail ${client_addr} variable) Not used (for the nonce) FILES
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc sendmail m4 input to generate sendmail.cf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf actual sendmail configuration file (treated as a binary file) SEE ALSO
sendmail(8), procmail(1), maildrop(1), deliver(8), mail.local(8) BUGS
None known so far. AUTHOR
Richard Nelson <cowboy@debian.org> HISTORY
4th Berkeley Distribution October 21 1999 SENSIBLE-MDA(8)