sm-mta , /home/"username"/.forward: World writable directory ?

Hello All , I know these have to be a configuration error .
But I sure am unable to find where it is . Any/All help
appreciated . See more notes & stuff below , JimL

sm-mta[23469]: h7KH0LD9023468: forward /home/"username"/.forward."hostname": World writable directory
sm-mta[23469]: h7KH0LD9023468: forward /home/"username"/.forward: World writable directory

I have searched thru the .cf files to no avail .
From the FAQ this should find if I have any BAD directory
permissions . But I don't as you can see .
# sendmail -v -bi
/etc/mail/aliases: 29 aliases, longest 33 bytes, 413 bytes total

# dir -d /home/"username"/
44 drwxr-x--- 185 "username" users 45056 Aug 20 14:55 /home/"username"/

Using a known non-corrupted binary of find I did a search of all
file systems and there are no such file(s) with those names in
-any- of my file systems .

# /cdrom/live/usr/bin/find / -name ".*[Ff][Oo][Rr][Ww]*" -ls
1996388 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 340 Jun 15 19:37 /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/net/ipv4/.ip_forward.o.flags
2651229 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 344 Nov 15 2002 /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-rc2/net/ipv4/.ip_forward.o.flags
1572120 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 361 Nov 24 2002 /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-rc3-sym53c8xx_2-1.19/net/ipv4/.ip_forw ard.o.flags
2651514 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 342 May 18 09:30 /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-3/net/ipv4/.ip_forward.o.flags

# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 "FQDNHostname" ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.9/8.12.7; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:32:04 -0400
quit
221 2.0.0 "FQDNHostname" closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

# ver_linux
-- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or looks
-- unusual then possibly you have very old versions)
Slackware-Slackware 8.1
Linux filesrv1 2.4.21 #1 SMP Sun Jun 15 19:30:01 EDT 2003 i686 unknown
Kernel modules 2.4.25
Gnu C 2.95.3
Make version 3.79.1
Linux C Library 6 - libc-2.2.5
Dynamic Linker (ld.so) 2.2.5
Linux C++ Library Notfound
Procps 2.0.13
Mount 2.11r
Net-tools 1.60
Sh-utils 2.0
Flex 2.5.4
E2fsprogs 1.32

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