Re: [SM-USERS] Sendmail problem in SM

[Clive S. <cl...@ca...>]

Jonathan Angliss wrote:

> Hi Gerry,
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 19:14:49 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
>
> > > > Aug 9 00:03:22 svp sendmail[1039]: g78E3MR01039: SYSERR(apache):
> > > > Can't create transcript file ./xfg78E3MR01039: Permission denied Aug
> > > > 9 00:03:22 svp sendmail[1039]: g78E3MR01039: SYSERR(apache): Cannot
> > > > create ./dfg78E3MR01039: Permission denied
> > >

What is a transscript file?.
Where, do you think, the current directory (.) is, that sendmail is using when
trying to
create the temporary file, I imagine that it wouldnt be any of the system
directories or
other users would have had this problem before me.
I set the HTTP uploads temporary directory to be /tmp in conf.php, but i would of
thought
this is not related to sending mail.

>
> > > I don't think that this has anything to do with the web services
> > > itself, or Squirrel Mail. Can you send mail normally via that SMTP
> > > server? Via pine for example? That to me looks like a directory
> > > permissions error on /var/spool/mqueue or something like that.

The system is not used by email users directly. It is a mail server that is used
from the users
desktops on the local LAN.
It is working OK for sending and receiving email using POP3 locally and over the
internet.


>
> >
> > This actually sounds all too much like the classic Redhat problem...
>
> Not to me it doesn't.  That line you are talking about is the line that forces
> Sendmail to listen on localhost, port 25 only.  This would result in localhost,
> and localhost only being able to connect to the SMTP server, any other attempts
> at connecting to it such as to a nic would result in an error message such as
> connection refused at the client side.

(the system does work from the outside)


>
>
> > Go into /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and look for several lines near the bottom
> > that do not allow mail to be sent except from the local host (instructions
> > are in the file).  Comment them out according to the instructions then
> > follow the instructions at the top of the file to run the M4 macro to
> > create a new sendmail.cf file.  Restart sendmail (service sendmail
> > restart).
>

I had a look at the sendmail config and the local host only config is commented out

and doesnt appear in sendmail.cf.


>
> Try reading the sendmail.mc right above that line again, it says the following:
>
> ================================================================================
> dnl This changes sendmail to only listen on the loopback device 127.0.0.1
> dnl and not on any other network devices. Comment this out if you want
> dnl to accept email over the network.
> dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
> dnl We strongly recommend to comment this one out if you want to protect
> dnl yourself from spam. However, the laptop and users on computers that do
> dnl not have 24x7 DNS do need this.
> ================================================================================

this is how it looks.

>
> That is saying something completely different to the error message the user is
> getting saying that sendmail cannot write to the temp files, or the mqueue
> directory.  I suggest a detailed reading of what the line means.  Port = the
> port the server should listen on, it is providing a service name, so the port is
> looked up from /etc/services, Addr = the address to listen on, in this case
> 127.0.0.1 which is also known as localhost, Name = MTA as in Mail Transfer
> Agent, but we all knew that.
>
> If you are thinking that sendmail isn't set to accept mail from the Squirrel
> Mail interface (for example the interface that SM connects to isn't in the
> /etc/mail/access file), then you'd see a line such as relaying denied in the log
> files.
>
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