must be in root group

[Jaroslav Javor]

Hello,

sendmail:
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do you have suid bit on /usr/bin/procmail?

chown root /usr/bin/procmail
chmod u+s /usr/bin/procmail
(Not good but quick. It's better to run it under other user but it's a
little bit complicated.)

chmod u+w,a+tx  /usr/spool/mail

In standart instalation of sendmail are the owner of files in
/var/spool/mail their user and group is usually set on mail. If sendmail and
procmail are owned by  root with suid bit, they can write and read to/from
every file.
But it's not much secure!!! Implicitly, I think,
sendmail uses rights of user and group "mail".

You can eventualy send more error messages, but I think your problem is -
rights.

POP3
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Is it running under user who can read/write files in /var/spool/mail?

JJ


> I use sendmail fine, but all my users need to be in the "root" group
unless
> the account doesn't work : cant receive , send & check ...
>
> the server answer (i put my user in 'mail' group)
>
>  when i try to send a mail to it :
>
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <account na domainname.com>
>     (reason: can't create (user) output file)
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/info.lock"
> procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/info"
> 550 5.0.0 <account na domainname.com>... Can't create output
>
>  when i try to check it say :
>
> error in mail server connection. password refused. account : 'account
name',
> Serveur : 'ip-adress', Protocole : POP3, server answer : '-ERR System
error,
> can't open temporary file, do you own it?', Port : 110, Secure (SSL) : No,
> server error: 0x800CCC90, erreur number: 0x800CCC92
>
> Thanks for help.
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