Unable to send email

dusk at badseed.bytch.net dusk at badseed.bytch.net
Tue Apr 22 08:28:06 PDT 2003


	I am running FreeBSD stable 4.7 and Sendmail 8.12.7. I am unable
to send email. This is the error output:

su-2.05$ collect: Cannot write ./dfh3MDwWTE001257 (bfcommit, uid=1001,
gid=25): 
Permission denied
queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfh3MDwWTE001257,
uid=1001: Permission 
denied

	As you can see it is giving me a "permissions" error. I am not
sure exactly how long this has been going on. I just noticed it
yesterday. I double checked file and directory permissions and broke out
the big bat book (O'Reilly's sendmail bible). I have not done much with
the Sendmail install. I have created the access, virtual host
files and edited the ailias file. When I built the sendmail.cf file I
added two entries for dnsbl. At this point I am stuck. I hope that the
answer is in front of me and  just don't see it. I am sending this out to
this list because it looks like my problem is not so much with sendmail as
it is my system's permissions. Anybody got any ideas? 


I have included some ls -l output

su-2.05$ ls -l /var/
drwxrwxrwt   2 root    mail     512 Apr 22 11:05 mai
drwxr-xr-x  10 root    wheel    512 May 22 00:41 spoo

su-2.05$ ls -l /var/spool/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   daemon  512 Apr 22 11:00 mqueue

su-2.05$ ls -l /etc/
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel      1024 Apr 16 10:29 mail

su-2.05$ ls -l /etc/mail
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   4491 Sep 18  2001 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    840 Sep 18  2001 README
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  32383 Apr 16 09:21 access
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel  57344 Apr 16 10:29 access.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    411 Sep 18  2001 access.sample
-rwx------  1 root  wheel    167 Apr 16 09:33 access.sh
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   2385 Apr 21 22:36 aliases
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  32768 Apr 21 22:36 aliases.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  58342 Apr 15 23:01 frank.cf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   4472 Apr 15 23:01 frank.mc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  46632 Sep 18  2001 freebsd.cf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  46632 Apr 15 22:29 freebsd.cf-orig
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   4472 Apr 15 22:35 freebsd.mc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   4267 Apr 15 22:13 freebsd.mc-orig
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   5573 Sep 18  2001 helpfile
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Apr 16 10:16 lists
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    389 Apr 16 09:48 local-host-names
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    316 Sep 18  2001 mailer.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    245 Sep 18  2001 mailertable.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    416 Apr 16 09:36 relay-domains
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  58460 Apr 21 22:49 sendmail.cf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  46632 Apr 15 23:02 sendmail.cf-orig
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3062 Apr 16 09:42 virtusertable
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel  32768 Apr 16 10:29 virtusertable.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    573 Sep 18  2001 virtusertable.sample
-rwx------  1 root  wheel    193 Apr 16 10:29 virtusertable.sh

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