Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 10:42:09 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: mail sending problem (how can this happen?) Message-ID: <199602090942.KAA28516@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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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 <user@host_on_local_ethernet> <alias_for_two_other_users>
Subject:<some_subject>
<message_text>
.
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
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