Problem sending mail (sendmail + mutt) please help

[llyrwy]

I am running mutt + sendmail on OSX 10.1.3 and I am unable to send mail. The error message from within mutt is as follows:

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Output of delivery process:
etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 81: fileclass: cannot open
etc/mail/local-hosts-names: group writable directory

Error sending messag, child exited 71 (Operating System Error).
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I thought this was a permissions problem, and chmod 777 on the etc/mail/local-hosts-names file, but this still did not work.

Please help.

w.

 

[llyrwy]

I cannot receive email using fetchmail and procmail either. Here are the error messages that appear when I run fetchmail to retrieve using POP3:

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fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
fetchmail: can't raise listener; falling back to /usr/bin/procmail -d

procmail: couldn't create "/var/spool/<username>"
procmail: error while writing to "~/Mail/procmaillog".
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Seems to me that OSX is affecting some permissions somewhere?

Grateful for any help offered.

Thanks

 

[Jadey]

llyrwy, yours is a permissions problem. The O'Reilly network recommends this fix before using sendmail. Launch a terminal and type:

sudo chmod g-w /

Now sendmail should launch.