Re: Urgent: Sendmail Help

["Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Gogoi wrote:
> > I am building a sendmail server as a central mail hub. I installed
> > sendmail from source, imap from source. But I installed procmail through
> > RPM file after installing sendmail. Would I need to compile sendmail?
>
> The last line should read "Would I need to RE-compile sendmail?"

And the answer remains: No, use of procmail (or not) is controlled via 
the sendmail.cf file (built from sendmail.mc).  Which leads me to ask:
If you installed procmail from RPM, why not sendmail as well?  That way 
you'd be sure that the two installations will play well with each other 
(assuming the 2 RPMs come from the same release....)

> Also imap is irrelevant right now as mail should at least be written to
> the user's /var/spool/mail. Retrieving the mail would perhaps be a
> different issue.

What are the permissions on /var/spool/mail?   I seem to remember they 
must be reletively secure or sendmail will complain.

How are you starting sendmail?

What user is senmail running as?

What's in your /var/log/maillog concerning sendmail's startup?

> Right now, the server is on the private LAN and isolated from all other
> servers.  The only interaction is with the server and a PC. So any mail
> sent to the server from the PC should get written to the users'
> /var/spool/mail box and thats all.

Assuming that the permissions allow it to....

> Also why  permission denied on the .forward file? That file doesn't
> exist.

What .forward file?  Is sendmail trying to read another user's $HOME dir 
(while attempting to deliver an email?) and can't because sendmail 
doesn't have sufficient access to even read the directory that is 
supposed to contain the .forward if it *was* present?

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Kevin J. Cummings
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