[lug] sendmail won't send mail

[jason at matchingmoms.com]

I'll try fiddling with the permissions.

More concerning to me, however, is the fact that sendmail did not send any mail.  I executed
/usr/sbin/sendmail friejas <sendstuff
several times, and yet nothing appears in my mailbox.  Any thoughts on that?

I appreciate your time on this,
Jason
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Harris, James 
  To: 'lug at lug.boulder.co.us' 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 9:46 AM
  Subject: RE: [lug] sendmail won't send mail


  This may be terribly roundabout, but I know that I've seen something like this on Slackware.  Try running pine and see if it reports a permissions message in the bottom of the screen when it's running.  I had to set my /var/spool/mail dir to 1777 (this box is just a private box so I'm not concerned too badly with security, but you may want to do some investigation/serious consideration of permissions before setting this.  If security isn't a bit issue, however, give it a try and see if it helps.)
    -----Original Message-----
    From: jason at matchingmoms.com [mailto:jason at matchingmoms.com]
    Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 21:24
    To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
    Subject: [lug] sendmail won't send mail


    I would expect the following command to have mailed the contents of the 'sendstuff' file to myself, but it did not:

    friejas ~/debian/sendmail$ /usr/sbin/sendmail friejas <sendstuff
    friejas ~/debian/sendmail$ mail
    Mail version 8.1 6/6/93.  Type ? for help.
    "/var/spool/mail/friejas": 1 message
    >   1 MAILER-DAEMON at powerp  Thu Mar 22 20:59  13/539   "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA"
    & q
    Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied
    friejas ~/debian/sendmail$ mail

    Can anyone help?
    Thank you,
    Jason
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