How can i enable the local users to send the mail?

[praveen..]

Hi,
I am able to send the emails with "root" using sendmail

But not able to send the emails with Local users like "oracle"

Please let me know how can i enable the local user "oracle" to send the emails

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
not much to go on !
Can you check permissions on sendmail executable, queue directories etc.
On my machine, for example:
-r-sr-sr-t 1 root mail 864256 Nov 3 2003 /usr/sbin/sendmail
Dr-xr-xr-x root bin etc
Drwxr-xr-x root bin mail
-r-x-r-s-r-x root smmsp /usr/sbin/sendmail
drwxrwx--- smmsp smmsp /var/spool/clientqueue
drwxr-xr-x root bin /var/spool/mqueue

What does your mail.log file say ?
Have you tried sendmail -v ?

[Sunil Sharma_1]

Praveen,

Some of the mail relay all ows the mail coming from specific address so if Peter's suggestion not work then you need to discuss this with your mail administrator if any such policy in place.

Sunil

[praveen..]

file permissions are ok...
but not able to send the mail using local user.

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Hi,
please provide details from:
What does your mail.log file say ?
Have you tried sendmail -v ?

[Andrew Young_2]

Hi.

Is the UserDatabaseSpec line uncommented in your sendmail.cf file?

Regards

Andrew Y

[Coolmar]

use sendmail -v and paste the output so we can maybe get a better picture of what is happening.

# sendmail -v to@who.com
This is a test
.

[praveen..]

Yes, I am able to send the mails using #sendmail -v to@who.com
test
.


Thanks

[dattu_1]

hi,
Use elm utility wherein u can create a header say oracle for a user called oracle to send a mail.

Bye.