From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kevin J. Cummings" Subject: Re: Urgent: Sendmail Help Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:33:07 -0400 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4164C703.6020409@kjchome.homeip.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Tony Gogoi Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Tony Gogoi wrote: >>I am building a sendmail server as a central mail hub. I installed >>sendmail from source, imap from source. But I installed procmail through >>RPM file after installing sendmail. Would I need to compile sendmail? >> > > The last line should read "Would I need to RE-compile sendmail?" And the answer remains: No, use of procmail (or not) is controlled via the sendmail.cf file (built from sendmail.mc). Which leads me to ask: If you installed procmail from RPM, why not sendmail as well? That way you'd be sure that the two installations will play well with each other (assuming the 2 RPMs come from the same release....) > Also imap is irrelevant right now as mail should at least be written to > the user's /var/spool/mail. Retrieving the mail would perhaps be a > different issue. What are the permissions on /var/spool/mail? I seem to remember they must be reletively secure or sendmail will complain. How are you starting sendmail? What user is senmail running as? What's in your /var/log/maillog concerning sendmail's startup? > Right now, the server is on the private LAN and isolated from all other > servers. The only interaction is with the server and a PC. So any mail > sent to the server from the PC should get written to the users' > /var/spool/mail box and thats all. Assuming that the permissions allow it to.... > Also why permission denied on the .forward file? That file doesn't > exist. What .forward file? Is sendmail trying to read another user's $HOME dir (while attempting to deliver an email?) and can't because sendmail doesn't have sufficient access to even read the directory that is supposed to contain the .forward if it *was* present? -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@rcn.com cummings@kjchome.homeip.net cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us