[Mimedefang] Sendmail Help

[Ben Kamen]

Ray Spinhirne wrote:
> 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.
> 

what user is sendmail running as?

Make sure that user has perms on the dir and group perms on the file typically.

i.e. my /var/spool/mail directory is owned by bin:mail and is 1777 (I think 
it's one... I have rwx+t for group)

and everything in mail is $user:mail 660

if sendmail is not running with group "mail" perms, it won't be able to write 
to any files.

  -Ben