On 27 Jun 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 22:02, J. Craig Woods wrote: > > > Not sure where the Toddmeister is going with the .procmailrc file. I am > > running boxes from lmdk 7.2 through 8.2, and no such file is found in > > any user's home directory. I hasten to add that procmail, in conjunction > > with both sendmail and postfix, runs just fine for every machine on the > > network. Doing configuration in sendmail.cf is like learning a new > > language. darC, any reason for sendmail over postfix? What distro of > > linux is on this machine? > > > drjung >
drjung, the macine I'm running sendmail on is a Linux Mandrake 8.2 box. actually, I had been running Postfix for quite a while, until recently it started doing some very strange things. it was very likely an operator error, but try as I might I just couldn't get things straightened out. So, I went back to Sendmail. the problem that I had outlined earlier was a problem I noticed only in versions after 8.9.x of Sendmail. especially the 8.11 that came with Mandrake 8.2. there's appears to be a nasty little demon in the package somewhere that causes the "cannot create transcript - permission denied" error. as I posted previously the one way I found to deal with this temporarily at first was to chmod the /var/spool/mqueue dir to 777. a little later in the day I realized that the user who "was" able to send with no trouble wasn't calling the smtp by name, rather by IP address. so, I changed the perms of the mqueue back to their original state and all is well again. still...I'm very curious as to what and why this happens with this version of sendmail? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!"
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