[lug] sendmail won't send mail

[Harris, James]

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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