[Mimedefang] Sendmail Help

Ray Spinhirne rays at admin.stedwards.edu
Sat May 14 23:27:03 EDT 2005


We are in the process of updated an HPUX server and MIMEDefang.

I'm pretty sure this is a sendmail problem and not a MIMEDefang
problem but perhaps someone could give me a pointer.  (It's late
and I'm not thinking were well.)  

At any rate here is what's happenning.


Mail originating on the machine works.
Get scanned by MIMEDefang and delivered locally.

Mail originating on another machine get's bounce
with the following:


   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<spinhirn at acad.stedwards.edu>
    (reason: Insufficient permission)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
mail: cannot append to /var/mail/spinhirn
Mail saved in dead.letter
550 5.0.0 <spinhirn at acad.stedwards.edu>... Insufficient permission

The permission on the mail spool is 

		660 spinhirn mail

Changing the permissions to 666 causes things to work ok.
(Obviously not someting we can use in production.)

I seems that locally sent sendmail is getting delivered by a process
with different permissions that externally delivered mail but I
have not be able to find the difference.

We have the same system running on another box and it is working ok.

I have not been able to determine the difference.


Perhaps someone can tell me the stupid mistake I cannot see.

Thanks

Ray Spinhirne
St. Edward's University






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