Sendmail 8.13.3 Permission Denied

[Fernando Boza]

Hi,

I upgraded my sendmail version from 8.9.3 to 8.13.3 on HP-UX 11.11. After the upgrade I get the following error when sending a mail for non root user.

Nov 1 14:20:01 CRDHP02 sendmail[4025]: mA1JK1up004025: SYSERR(operasyb): queueup: cannot create queue file ./qfmA1JK1up004025, euid=109, fd=-1, fp=0x0: Permission denied


Any idea?

[Bill Hassell]

sendmail 8.13 is very different. The new version requires a new directory for the mail queue. Besides /var/spool/mqueue, you'll need /var/spool/clientmqueue (which should have been created during the upgrade of sendmail. The permissions and ownership should be:

drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp /var/spool/clientmqueue

You should have a new user and group called smmsp.

[Johnson Punniyalingam · Accepted solution]

could be permission issue,

var/spool/mqueue is owned by root and the mail group

ll -d var/spool/mqueue --> past the out put

Thanks,
Johnson

[Mustafa Gulercan]

hi;

You must use the following permissions for the Sendmail configuration
and default queue files:
-r-xr-sr-x root smmsp ... /PATH/TO/sendmail
drwxrwx--- smmsp smmsp ... /var/spool/clientmqueue
The client mail queue directory
must be writable by smmsp. In the submit.cf file, you must set the
UseMSP option and you must set the QueueFileMode option to 0660.
drwx------ root wheel ... /var/spool/mqueue
-r--r--r-- root wheel ... /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
-r--r--r-- root wheel ... /etc/mail/submit.cf


regards,
mustafa