[KLUG Members] Question on sendmail. ***new***

[Peter Buxton]

>> >yadda yadda yadda.  /var/spool/clientmqueue is 777, so is mail and
>> mqueue.
>>
>> If those are the permissions, they are wrong.
>>
>
> I have permissions set that way to avoid any dumb permissions problems
> (easier to debug if you KNOW that mail can get delivered, if it ever gets
> that far)

That may be your problem. Many programs are now set up to check
permissions before they write/read files. Though I can't help but think
you would receive a clearer error message from an explicit test....

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>>
>> Preface: Don't know anything about gentoo, or even what emerge is.
>
> Gentoo's another distro (obviuosly).  To 'emerge' a program is to make it
> do something like OpenBSD with it's ports tree: fetch source, download,
> and compile it (And you just sit there).
>
>> ><message accepted for delivery>
>>
>> Can you devlier mail locally by running sendmail at the CLI with a debug
>> level,
>> of say 21.
>>
>> sendmail -d21 -v  adamb@glaven.org
>> blah blah
>> .<Enter>
>> blah blah
>
> It says it accepts it for delivery, but it doesn't ever go anywhere.
>>
>> What is the difference between these two log file snapshots?  Are they
>> from
>> different hosts?
>
> Same hosts.  Different logs (mail.err, mail.info, mail.log, etc)
>
>>
>> >However, mail is not delivered.  It's a valid user, with a valid
>> mailbox,
>
>>
>> Have you looked in roots mailbox to see if anything is there?
>
> Yes.  No mail is getting delivered anywhere.  Sendmail "accepts" it, then
> just drops it off into the ether somewhere.
>
>
> Wierd.
>
>
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