-----Original Message----- From: cour...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:cour...@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Jerry Amundson Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 12:50 PM To: Courier-Users-Request Subject: [courier-users] HomeDir perms/deferred HELP!

1. User johnb has an NIS home dir set to /tmp (don't ask :-).

2. All mail sent to john deferred because /tmp is world writeable

Oct 9 12:41:21 mailhost.pbs.com courierd: started,id=00006F64.3BC31BBE.00001898,from=<le...@pbs.com>,module=local,host= johnb!!744!100!/tmp!!,addr=<johnb> Oct 9 12:41:21 mailhost.pbs.com courierlocal: id=00006F64.3BC31BBE.00001898,from=<le...@pbs.com>,addr=<joh...@mailhost.pbs.c om>: maildrop: Invalid home directory permissions - world writable. Oct 9 12:41:21 mailhost.pbs.com courierlocal: id=00006F64.3BC31BBE.00001898,from=<le...@pbs.com>,addr=<joh...@mailhost.pbs.c om>,status: deferred

3. johnb is actually an alias (aliasdir/.qmail-johnb) to real user john

4. DEFAULTDELIVERY="| /opt/courier/bin/maildrop"

I've restarted everything, but local still insists /tmp is home dir. Anybody have an idea?