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Authored by: Anonymous on Jun 18, '02 09:04:31PM

I've been hacking the hell out of all the sendmail-related files I can find, wildly guessing at what their owners, groups, and perms should be. I now have something with the minimal errors, but unfortunately it's the most cryptic.

send-mail: setgroups: Operation not permitted /Volumes/docs/joe/dead.letter... Saved message in /Volumes/docs/joe/dead.letter

Wonderful. I have *no* clue what's happening here. setgroups (in the manpage) is a function to set the current program's group id. This looks like sendmail trying to sgid itself. Unfortunately, setgroups fails if the caller is not root - which it *should be* in the case of sendmail! Something is odd somewhere. I'm going to triple-check ownership and bits on the sendmail binary...

Oh, and somewhere along the way I lost those excessive "mailer must be TCP or FILE" warnings. I don't know how I did it, but they've disappeared. Good riddance.



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