Failure of sending mail through sun solaris

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi Friends,

I tried to mail from my sun solaris 5.8 by:

$mailx -v sridha_151086@yahoo.co.in
Subject: Test mail
This is the test mail!!
.
EOT

The error message I got is:

land% Sri... forward: /export/home/Sri/.forward.+: World writable directory
Sri... forward: /export/home/Sri/.forward+: World writable directory
Sri... forward: /export/home/Sri/.forward.: World writable directory
Sri... forward: /export/home/Sri/.forward: World writable directory
/export/home/Sri/dead.letter... Saved message in /export/home/Sri/dead.letter

Could you please tell me what the error could be?

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It says quite plainly that the problem is that your home directory is world writable. (I don't think that necessarily explains why you can't send mail, but you should fix it.)