Sendmail & 10.2 Problems

[Moonchild]

I'm going insane trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my sendmail, and get nowhere. Did a clean install of 10.2.

First, I followed the intructions at: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/06/07/sendmail_1015.html

(Note: I added the Don'tBlameSendmail thing to the config)

I've checked permissions on all directories and files and all looks good:

-r-xr-sr-x  1 root  smmsp  581448 Aug 25 21:03 /usr/sbin/sendmail
drwxrwx---  3 smmsp   smmsp   102 Aug 25 23:26 /var/spool/clientmqueue
drwx------  4 root    wheel   136 Aug 29 18:27 /var/spool/mqueue

But, when I try to send mail - say to "joe@yahoo.com" (a non-local address), I get the following entry in /var/log/mail.log:

Aug 29 18:18:23 Daves-iBook sendmail[637]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(dave): can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue/): Permission denied

I can change the permissions on /var/spool/mqueue to 777 and everything works fine, but I'd rather not do that and defeat the security built into sendmail.

 

[btoneill]

Give chmod 750 /var/spool/mqueue a try.

Brian

 

[Moonchild]

Nope, that doesn't work either, but instead fills the log with different errors:

Aug 29 20:34:39 Daves-iBook sendmail[854]: g7U0Yd4U000854: SYSERR(dave): collect: Cannot write ./dfg7U0Yd4U000854 (bfcommit, uid=501, gid=25): Permission denied
Aug 29 20:34:39 Daves-iBook sendmail[854]: g7U0Yd4U000854: from=dave, size=79, class=0, nrcpts=1, relay=localhost
Aug 29 20:34:39 Daves-iBook sendmail[854]: g7U0Yd4U000854: 0: fl=0x0, mode=140000: SOCK [0]->(Socket is not connected)
Aug 29 20:34:39 Daves-iBook sendmail[854]: g7U0Yd4U000854: 1: fl=0x2, mode=20620: CHR: dev=2/3198612, ino=37168260, nlink=1, u/gid=501/4, size=0
Aug 29 20:34:39 Daves-iBook sendmail[854]: g7U0Yd4U000854: 2: fl=0x2, mode=20620: CHR: dev=2/3198612, ino=37168260, nlink=1, u/gid=501/4, size=0
Aug 29 20:34:39 Daves-iBook sendmail[854]: g7U0Yd4U000854: 3: fl=0x2, mode=140000: SOCK [0]->[[UNIX: /var/run/syslog]]
Aug 29 20:34:39 Daves-iBook sendmail[854]: g7U0Yd4U000854: 4: fl=0x1, mode=20666: CHR: dev=2/3198612, ino=37168900, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0
Aug 29 20:34:39 Daves-iBook sendmail[854]: g7U0Yd4U000854: SYSERR(dave): queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfg7U0Yd4U000854, uid=501: Permission denied


Besides, accourding to the sendmail docs, mqueue should be mode 700...