[plug] Problems with Sendmail

[Mark J Gaynor]

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On 7/01/2005 at 5:10 PM J. Richard Mortimer wrote:

>To my amazement, this worked, sending from root to the local user!
>
>I then sent a message from root to my external email account (with my eyes
>and mouth wide open). However when I tried to send from a web page using
>the
>apache user, I got an error in the maillog stating:
>
>Jan  7 17:03:22 neophytte sendmail[6493]: j0793MII006490: to=mortimer,
>ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:
>00:00, mailer=local, pri=30014, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>Jan  7 17:03:57 neophytte sendmail[6498]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.10)
>failed: 1
>Jan  7 17:03:57 neophytte sendmail[6498]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(apache): can not
>chdir(/var/spool/mqueue/): Permission denied

You have a permissions problem. Apache does not have permission to write to
the
mail spool. The webmail client may not be configured to use Sendmail.

Sendmail is good, but can be difficult to configure. You may have to think
in terms of
mail hubs and even consider a smart host configuration.

May I suggest going to the Sendmail web site for configuration/permissions
help.

www.sendmail.org

Mark
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