[ale] Sendmail 8.9.1, Linuxconf, mail.local annoyances, and me...

[Stephan Uphoff]

You are probably running sendmail as user mail (RunAsUser).

If you do not need to deliver mail directly files (procmail is fine)
you might just want to change the access rights of /var/spool/mqueue to
allow mail write access to the queue.
Otherwise you should run sendmail as root.

Warning: I am almost totaly clue-less about sendmail.
         Everything I say might be ridiculously wrong.

Stephan

Jay Finch:
> Hi all!
> 	After many frustrating hours of trying to deal with the Sendmail 8.9.1
> annoyances, and how it doesn't deal with Linuxconf very well, I figured I'd
> ask the experts. ;)
> 
> I have Sendmail 8.8.8 -- I want to upgrade to 8.9.1 to take advantage of
> the new, more powerful SPAM filters that 8.9.1 offers.  HOWEVER -- I also
> need to update my sendmail.cf as well, and here's the rub.
> 
> I followed the (sometimes obtuse) instructions on how to configure Sendmail
> 8.9.1 and started modifying it to match my existing 8.8.8 config.  (WIth
> the correct Cw fields, variables, etc.)
> 
> Now, when I tried to start it, I got these errors:
> 
> (From Syslog)
> Oct  2 01:18:29 larp sendmail[10021]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(nobody): queuename:
> Cannot create "qfBAA10021" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=65534): Permission
> denied
> 
> (From Messages)
> Oct  2 01:15:01 larp sendmail[9986]: BAA09976: to=<root at larp.com>,
> ctladdr=<horus at larp.com> (1000/100), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=local, stat=unknown mailer error 1
> Oct  2 01:15:02 larp sendmail[9986]: BAA09976: BAA09986: DSN: unknown
> mailer error 1
> 
> -----
> Erg... This was pretty bad and got me so annoyed I downgraded back to 8.8.8
> so I could keep my mailserver running.
> 
> I've searched and found some "Howto" documents on configuring Sendmail, but
> they're all for 8.8.7- ... I've done this before, but damn... I forgot how
> hard it was. :(
> 
> Any suggestions?  Tips? Hints?  Locations of small-arms manafacturers? ;)
> 
> Cheers!
> Jay
> ...Man, the "Bat Book" is huge...
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