[ale] Still butting head against fetchmail/sendmail link

[John Mills]

Sorry to keep raking over the old chestnut, but maybe something I write
will strike a bell for someone.

Starting from a fresh installation of 'sendmail-8.9.3-20' rpm and
'fetchmail-5.3.1' from RH6.2, I tried again setting up to capture my mail
from the ISP's POP3 server. First I verified local mail on my host between
'root' and my normal user self, with no problems, and to myself locally.

When I try to capture mail from the ISP's POP3 server, I seem to get the
message but can't create the local file in '/var/spool/mqueue'. I've set
permissions at '/var/spool/mqueue' to '777', but I still get (as fetchmail
log):

"[...]
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-otter.mills-atl.com Hello
IDENT:jmills at localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-EXPN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-VERB
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-8BITMIME
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DSN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ONEX
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-XUSR
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<john at mills-atl.com> SIZE=189763
fetchmail: SMTP< 451 queuename: Cannot create "qfQAA11523" in
"/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=0): Operation not permitted
fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Reset state
fetchmail: SMTP error: 250 Reset state
........................................................................................................................................................................................... not
flushed
[... all messages fail similarly ...]"

Any suggestions welcomed.

-- 
Regards -
 John Mills



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