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I have a redhat 5.1 Linux box handling mail and web traffic for a small
network. It runs great, mail from Windows clients using POP/SMTP works
fine. I just have problems sending mail if I telnet in and use pine or
other console mail progs. Unless I am logged in as (or su'd to) root I get
the following errors.

In Pine

[Mail not sent. Sending error: 451 queuename: Cannot create "qfPAA14279]

In /var/log/messages

Sep 24 15:26:45 machinename sendmail[14285]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(username):
queuename: Cannot create "qfPAA14279" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=525):
Permission denied

I tried chmod +w /var/spool/mqueue just to see if it changed things - made
no difference to the problem.. so put the correct permissions back.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

Andy

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    Andy> I have a redhat 5.1 Linux box handling mail and web traffic
    Andy> for a small network. It runs great, mail from Windows
    Andy> clients using POP/SMTP works fine. I just have problems
    Andy> sending mail if I telnet in and use pine or other console
    Andy> mail progs. Unless I am logged in as (or su'd to) root I get
    Andy> the following errors.

    Andy> In Pine

    Andy> [Mail not sent. Sending error: 451 queuename: Cannot create
    Andy> "qfPAA14279]

This simply means that the user does not have the necessary
permissions to write to the spool directory.  Check the perms of
/var/spool/mqueue and you'll probably find that it's set so that only
root can write to it.

mp

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/var/spool/mqueue should be 755, and sendmail should have the
sticky bit (4755).  If as root you do

 # chmod 755 /var/spool/mqueue
 # chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/sendmail

that should do the trick.  Be sure to kill & restart sendmail, i.e.

 # kill (the sendmail id)
 # /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd

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