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....)
I agree. I dont really recommend compiling anything if its not actually necessary. Applying security patches to a RPM install is a no-brainer and takes about five minutes. Applying them to a source-compiled installation is a far bigger headache.
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?
If he added the user with this command:
useradd -u 531 -s /bin/false tempuser
ie without "-m" (create homedir) then im assuming either "tempuser's" homedir doesnt exist or was added by hand and mistakenly is owned by root:root, for example. The permission denied is not necessarily saying "you dont have the rights to alter this file", it could just as well mean "you dont have the rights to create this file).
ie - check the ownership and permissions of the homedir.
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