dma: could not open flush file: Permission denied

[Dan Langille]

Dan Langille wrote on 8/8/21 10:54 AM:
> I recently switched from postfix to dma on some servers which don't 
> need incoming smtp. On 4 of those 6 servers, I'm seeing this nightly: 
> Aug 7 03:02:15  stage-nginx01 dma[dma][79633]: could not open flush 
> file: Permission denied
>
> I can't see a difference between the hosts. But I'm sure it's 
> something in periodic daily.
>
> Thank you
>
> [dan at stage-nginx01:~] $ cat /etc/dma/dma.conf
> SMARTHOST cliff.int.unixathome.org
> SECURETRANSFER
> STARTTLS
>
> [dan at stage-nginx01:~] $ cat /etc/mail/mailer.conf
> sendmail      /usr/libexec/dma
> mailq         /usr/libexec/dma
> newaliases    /usr/libexec/dma
> rmail         /usr/libexec/dma
>
> [dan at stage-nginx01:~] $ grep mail /etc/rc.conf
> sendmail_enable="NO"
> sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
> sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
> sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

It seems this is sufficient to stop that message:

daily_queuerun_enable="NO"

Thank you.

-- 
Dan Langille
dan at langille.org : https://langille.org/