Re: sendmail and smartlist.

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:58:16AM -0500, Jerry Sloan wrote:

Here is the error I am getting trying to send e-mail to my lists after upgrading sendmail.

SYSERR(smart) cannot create queue temp file permission denied dangerous permissions 40755 on /var/spool/clientmqueue.

What can I do to fix this...???

Read sendmail documentation - this is not smartlist issue. Specifically look at (under sendmail source tree) sendmail/SECURITY.

Anyway, start with

chown smmsp /var/spool/clientmqueue chgrp smmsp /var/spool/clientmqueue chmod 770 /var/spool/clientmqueue

and see if it helps.

Chances are you have other permissions wrong, too, though. Sendmail 8.12 is somewhat fussier about directory permissions than earlier versions.