[Mimedefang] Sendmail Help

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 15.05.2005 schrieb Ben Kamen um 6:30:

> 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

Sendmail is an MTA and has no LDA capabilities. So it will never store /
write to the mail spool itself. The local mailer does this, often
Procmail plays this role.
I can't say something specific to the Sendmail and local mailer setup on
HP-UX, but the permissions noted above look proper.

Alexander


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