[Mimedefang] Authentication warnings and "cannot write" error s

[Cormack, Ken]

Alan,

Thanks for reminding me that the local submission queue is clientmqueue, and
not mqueue.
It's "native" perms were:

	drwxrwx---    2 smmsp    smmsp        4096 Oct  3 12:09 clientmqueue

I've made "defang" a member of group smmsp.  I'll monitor, to see if that
clears the problem.


KEN CORMACK, RHCE
Sr. UNIX Systems Analyst,
    Open Systems Group
Sr. Software Analyst,
    TSG Midrange Systems Group
AFFILIATED COMPUTER SERVICES, INC.

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not is’ that that is not ’is’?  It is!” - Ken Cormack

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Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Authentication warnings and "cannot write" errors


On 3/12/04 6:23 AM, "Cormack, Ken" <kcormack at acs.roadway.com> wrote:

> Dear group,
> 
> Poking through my maillog, I'm seeing log entries that appear below.  As I
> read mimedefang.pl, there are a few places where it looks like MIMEDefang
is
> originating new messages, and sending them, addressed from the defang
user,
> using the "-f" switch for sendmail.
> 
> In which case, it is failing to write the message to my /var/spool/mqueue
> directory, which has the following perms:
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     mail       299008 Mar 11 16:20 mqueue
> 
> Should I make the "defang" user a member of group "mail", and open up
write
> privalegdes to the group, on the mqueue directory?
> 
> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> Ken
> 
...snip...

Ken,

  The notifications generated by MIMEDefang should be going thru your
submission queue runner, and thus using /var/spool/clientmqueue.

you should confirm the existence of that directory and the permissions and
make sure you have a submission queue running.  I think the default is 1hour
and I set mine for 5mins.  (on redhat, this is configurable in
/etc/sysconfig/sendmail)

anyways, i'd guess it's SOMEthing related to the /var/spool/clientmqueue
directory.

HTH

alan

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