Hey there,

> Thanks for the info. On an unrelated note, any idea what that is then?

I think this is a pure sendmail issue, and I bet you are using a recent
version of sendmail, or a vendor-specific configured one. Specifically I
think these issues are present in the 8.12 version(s) of sendmail. 

The issue is the tasks that sendmail handles; listening on port 25 for
mail, and flushing the mail queue periodically. To quote an article
which might help;

"Sendmail v8.12 is the first release of Sendmail to draw a distinction
between the Message Submission Process (MSP) and the Mail Transfer Agent
(MTA). Simply put, the MSP is the procedure used by local processes when
they want to emit email from the local machine. The MTA is the process
that handles receiving email from other systems and either relaying it
onwards or delivering it locally."

So your error;

sm-msp-queue[1544]: unable to write
/var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid: Permission denied

points definitively to Sendmail, and not Squirrelmail. I attempt to
decode the first line this way, sm is sendmail, msp is Message
Submission Process and the queue is the mail queue, [1544] is the pid
that MSP is running under. Unable to write means that perhaps the MTA
queue-flushing is turned of and/or sendmail is not listening on port 25,
or (more likely due to the next line of your message,) that the MSP does
not have the required permissions.

Here is the URI for the article I mentioned;
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=8228/sam0306a/0306a.htm
Here is the URI for Sendmail;
http://www.sendmail.org/

Hopefully this is of some use to you.

Jeremiah



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