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

[Adam Bultman]

Nope. Sendmail will bark, but it won't not deliver mail.  I put them
right, and it still isn't working.  Maybe I'll let it sit a while.

I'm going to try to unemerge the other stupid mta.

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adamb@glaven.org
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On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Peter Buxton wrote:

> >> >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....
>
>