Hi Corinna,

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> On Jul 24 23:42, D. Boland wrote:
> > [...]
> > Sendmail checks if the user's home directories are group- or world
> > writable. It does this with 'stat'. If Sendmail is running in 'crude'
> > mode (main program and children running as the Sendmail 'smmsp' user,
> > made admin), stat returns the right file mode for my home directory
> > (rwxr-xr-x). The email is delivered.
> >
> > If I have Sendmail running in preferred mode (main program as
> > cyg_server, children running as 'smmsp', removed from admin group),
> > stat returns the wrong mode (rwxrwxrwx). As a consequence, Sendmail
> > refuses to deliver email.
> >
> > Can I do anything about this?
> 
> That shouldn't happen.  Unless your home dir is on FAT or FAT32
> and you're using the wrong umask.  For a start, can you try this:
> 
> Login as user smmsp twice, once with admin privs, once without.
> Each time, run the following command:
> 
>   $ strace -o stat.trace stat <your home dir>
> 
> And send the output of stat, as well as the two generated trace files
> here.  This might give us a clue.

Here's the output I get on the terminal:

daniel@dimension ~
$ ssh smmsp@localhost
smmsp@localhost's password:
Last login: Tue Jul 22 07:18:27 2014 from localhost

smmsp@dimension ~
$ groups
None Users mail

smmsp@dimension ~
$ strace -o /tmp/stat.trace stat /home/daniel/
  File: `/home/daniel/'
  Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 65536  directory
Device: e82f1393h/3895399315d   Inode: 1970324836993607  Links: 1
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1003/  daniel)   Gid: (  513/    None)
Access: 2014-07-28 09:40:47.976156800 +0200
Modify: 2014-07-17 11:40:03.095408000 +0200
Change: 2014-07-17 11:40:03.095408000 +0200
 Birth: 2014-05-22 17:00:44.538505600 +0200

daniel@dimension ~
net localgroup "Administrators" "smmsp" /add

daniel@dimension ~
$ ssh smmsp@localhost
smmsp@localhost's password:
Last login: Mon Jul 28 09:48:12 2014 from localhost

smmsp@dimension ~
$ groups
None Administrators Users mail

smmsp@dimension ~
$ strace -o /tmp/stat.trace.admin stat /home/daniel/
  File: `/home/daniel/'
  Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 65536  directory
Device: e82f1393h/3895399315d   Inode: 1970324836993607  Links: 1
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1003/  daniel)   Gid: (  513/    None)
Access: 2014-07-28 09:53:19.596934400 +0200
Modify: 2014-07-17 11:40:03.095408000 +0200
Change: 2014-07-17 11:40:03.095408000 +0200
 Birth: 2014-05-22 17:00:44.538505600 +0200

The strace output is attached.

Daniel