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[Derek Ragona]

At 10:08 PM 7/30/2008, Andy Christianson wrote:
> >
> > At 05:45 PM 7/30/2008, Andy Christianson wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Check perms on /var/mail that it is set to 775
> > >
> > >         -Derek
> > >
> >
> > /var/mail is at 775, so that's not it...
> >
> > [andy at fbsd ~]$ stat /var/mail
> > 89 47105 drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 188185 512 "Jul 30 03:01:51 2008" "Jul 30
> > 16:35:18 2008" "Jul 30 16:35:18 2008" "Feb 24 12:49:40 2008" 4096 4 0
> > /var/mail
> >
> >
> >
> > I would kick up the logging on sendmail to see better what is going on and
> > where the failure really is.  You can add:
> > -O LogLevel=80
> > To your sendmail options in /etc/rc.conf
> >
> > Since root can send mail but regular users cannot, it sounds like a
> > permission problem somewhere.
> >
> >         -Derek
> >
>It turns out that FreeBSD wasn't happy with its host name. I changed it to a
>host name that resolves properly, and sendmail began to work as expected.
>
>Thanks for looking at this.
>
>-Andy

Andy,

Sendmail is VERY dns dependent as you found out.  Glad all is working fine.

         -Derek


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