On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:

After doing upgrade from woody to sarge sendmail stopped being
able to accept messages for local delivery:
        $ telnet mail.tarunz.org 25
[...]
        .
        421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write ./dfj8HJ2MR1021343 (bfcommit, uid=0,
        gid=101): Permission denied
        Connection closed by foreign host.

Make sure you don't have any stray sendmail processes from before the
upgrade - I've infrequently seen a sendmail process not properly stop

That would explain your error message

To make delivery work I had to change permissions
for /var/spool/mqueue from drwxr-s--- to drwxrwsrwx

Thanks to kuttler of [EMAIL PROTECTED] for validating his
local queue permissions on a working sarge sendmail. He said
it's a local admin tweak as well, it didn't work out of the box.

nope, the permissions were correct - something else, like an old
daemon process is at fault:

This is what I have on all the sendmail boxen here, at work, and home:
$ ls -ld /var/spool/mqueue
drwxr-s---  10 smmta smmsp 4096 Aug 30  2004 /var/spool/mqueue

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Rick Nelson
* Knghtbrd pelts wichert with NERF darts
* wichert notes there are no ICBM nerfs yet and ignores kngtbrd
<Knghtbrd> wichert - just wait, after seeing the NERF gatling guns, ICBMs
           are not far off (just pump the damned thing for an hour or two
           is all...)


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