From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 9 01:39:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA13000 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 01:39:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA12980 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 01:39:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA28516 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 10:42:09 +0100 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 10:42:09 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199602090942.KAA28516@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: mail sending problem (how can this happen?) Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On a 2.1R system it just happened to me that after sending a mail which I typed in interactively by typing gil>mail -c Subject: . gil> queuename: Cannot create "qfKAA28419" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=107): Permission denied How can this happen. Writing the mail a second time in the same manner worked ok. Could this be a race condition with incoming mail? In this context another question: A colleague had run in 'political' difficulties in his working group where he got attacked of not having informed some other group members about a certain fact. He was sure he sent them a mail but the receiver claimed he never got the mail. I looked into /var/log/maillog and found that sendmail logged Sent (ok) or something. Is this the absolute proof that the message had been delivered correctly to the receiving system? (The sending system is a 2.1R FreeBSD, the receiving system some other - SGI). --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de