Freepbx 13: mail forwarding error in maillog

General Help
1

the daily logwatch I get from my freepbx-13 machine shows a high number of mail forward errors, usually over 500 every day. The line in logwatch under the sendmail heading reads:
Forwarding errors:
Total: 578
so I looked in /var/log/maillog and I see these two lines repeating every five minutes:
forward /home/asterisk/.forward.freepbx: Group writable directory
forward /home/asterisk/.forward: Group writable directory
I looked in /home/asterisk/ and there is no .forward.freepbx folder or file. I tried creating both a forward.freepbx folder and a forward.freepbx file but that didn’t work. What is this forwarding? do I need it and how do I solve this?

2

Sorry, there was a permissions error in ‘fwconsole chown’ that set the permissions of /home/asterisk incorrectly for a couple of versions. That’s fixed in the latest framework. Simply update, and then run ‘fwconsole chown’ from the command line (as root) and that’ll fix it.

3

ok thanks but update what exactly? update modules? update freepbx?

4

Yes.

Specifically, update the “Framework” module, but there’s little sense in doing that unless you do it in the context of a “more-or-less” full module update from Module Admin (under Admin).

5

That’s (normally) the same thing 8)

Just go into module admin, click on ‘check online’, and update anything that needs updating.

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