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From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
To: Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org>
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Subject: Re: Odd sendmail error
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Mark Knight wrote:

> One my 4.8 box I recently made a silly mistake sending a mail from the
> command line, along the lines of:
>
>    mkn@shrewd$ mail test@knigma.org -c test@knigma.org
>    Subject: test
>    test
>    EOT
>    mkn@shrewd$ WARNING: RunAsGid for MSP ignored, check group ids
>    (egid=1001, want=25)
>    can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
>    Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.

Well, according to the mail(3) manpage, anything after the to: address is
passed straight to sendmail. And it turns out that the presence of the
email address does not matter either.

  > sendmail -c
  WARNING: RunAsGid for MSP ignored, check group ids (egid=5000, want=25)
  can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
  Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.

But thats about as far as I can figure, because as far as I can tell the
sendmail -c option is undocumented... The source code says (main.c):

          /* compatibility flags */
          case 'c':     /* connect to non-local mailers */

So basically you are inadvertantly using a deprecated option. I'm not
suprised it gives an unusual error message...

Gavin