Well, check the permissions on the queue and other directories -- be careful the newer versions of sendmail uses two copies of the binary and you need a sendmail.mc and submit.mc to make this work. Be sure to read the SECURITY file and the cf/README to see what is going on. on Monday 09/30/2002 Charles Hallenbeck(hallenbeck at valstar.net) wrote > I have just upgraded my Slackware distro from 8.0 to 8.1 and have > everything working okay, except sendmail. I cannot get it to work > with the canned configurations, nor with one I compiled myself > (with Steve Holmes help). > > I am really tempted to abandon sendmail for another smtp program > and I wonder what alternatives to sendmail others have used. > > In case I am overlooking something obvious, here is the error > message I consistently get when running fetchmail to pull down > mail from my ISP. Sendmail does not work for outgoing mail > either. > > In response to fetchmail: > > 2 messages for hallenbeck at mail.valstar.net (8519 octets). > reading message hallenbeck at mail.valstar.net:1 of 2 (2991 octets) > ..fetchmail: SMTP error: 421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write > ./dfg8UISIMc001731 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=25): Permission denied > not flushed > reading message hallenbeck at mail.valstar.net:2 of 2 (5528 octets) > ..fetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error > fetchmail: socket error while fetching from in.valstar.net > fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) > fetchmail: terminated with signal 13 > > ---------- > > The error on the second message seems to be a side effect of the > first one. I get these two errors even if there are more than two > messages waiting. > > So - what I need is - if you see something obvious here that will > help, I would appreciate knowing what it is. Or - if you use an > alternative to sendmail and can recommend it, I would like to > know about that too. > > I am ready to sell this box and dust off my trusty abacus! > > Chuck > > > > -- > The Moon is Waning Crescent (39% of Full) > So visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
