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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:25:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jeff Jirsa <jeff@boris.st.hmc.edu>
To:        "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: can't send mail: "collect: Cannot write ./dd j000181 (bfcommit)
Message-ID:  <20020731121938.W20940-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200207311915.g6VJF74j000860@hedwig.ds.psu.edu>

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On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:

>
> I have the new machine mostly setup, but it is still unable to send
> mail.
>
> mail -sabc someone@somehere.org
>
> at first appears to have succeded, and returns to the shell.
>
>
> Then I get:
>
> slytherinttyp1:hawk>collect: Cannot write ./dfg6VE77n7000152 (bfcommit, uid=1000, gid=25): Permission denied
> queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfg6VE77n7000152, uid=1000: Permission denied
> rw
> [1] 153
>
>

What version of sendmail?

What are the permissions on /var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/clientmqueue ?

If you're running sendmail 8.12.x, It should look something like:

# ll /var/spool/ | grep *mqueue
drwxrwx---  2 smmsp   smmsp   512 Jul 31 11:43 clientmqueue/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root    daemon  512 Jul 31 12:19 mqueue/


and whichever sendmail binary you're using (probably
/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail) needs to be setgid smmsp:


# ll /usr/libexec/sendmail
total 1008
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      15 Jul  5 23:31 sendmail@ -> sendmail-8.12.3
-r-xr-sr-x  1 root  smmsp  599501 Jul  5 23:29 sendmail-8.12.3*


- Jeff Jirsa



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