Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:57:51 +0000 From: Ian Lord <lordi@msdi.ca> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Sendmail recommended permissions for apache/php server Message-ID: <AC28A3ECE8FFEA4CAE20B2B79FDB8F709B6DDB@server01.msdi.local>
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Hi, I am trying to use sendmail to send emails from a php script (I tried phpm= ailer and mail function with the same result). I always got messages like "Could not execute: /usr/sbin/sendmail" Sendmail is World executable: # ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Jan 3 02:57 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/= mailwrapper So I've checked into /var/log/messages and found this: Apr 11 18:09:44 dev sendmail[38340]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(www): can not chdir(/v= ar/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied I've checked permissions on the /var/spool/clientmqueue/ directory # ls -al /var/spool/clientmqueue/ drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 3 Apr 11 19:01 . So I saw that only the user and group smmsp could write to this directory. = I presumed the apache user should have access to it so I added "www" to the= "smmsp" directory. I then got a different error in /var/log/messages Apr 11 19:38:40 dev sendmail[41170]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(www): can not write to= queue directory /var/spool/clientmqueue/ (RunAsGid=3D0, required=3D25): Pe= rmission denied I found very old threads saying to change the group of apache to "smmsp" bu= t I doubt it's a good idea. Chmodding 777 the /var/spool/clientmqueue/ fixed the problem, I can now sen= d emails, but I wonder if this is the way to fix the issue correctly. Is that the official fix or did I missed some configuration somewhere ? Sen= ding emails from php using mail or sendmail should be something working out= of the box I guess, I doubt we're supposed to change permissions to make i= t work Any help would be appreciated. Regards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 143 Rue des Fauvettes St-Colomban (Qu=E9bec) J5K 0E2 T=E9l: (514) 776-MSDI -> (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI -> 1(877) 776-6734 http://www.msdi.ca<http://www.msdi.ca/>;
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