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From: mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Sendmail Problem
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Date: 26 Jan 91 22:15:01 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.165833.1@linus.claremont.edu>
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In article <1991Jan24.165833.1@linus.claremont.edu> jack@linus.claremont.edu writes:
>
>You can send mail to root and root can send mail to any user.  But user A
>cannot send mail to user B (or even to A for that matter).  Any user can send
>mail from the DECStation to another machine but no mail can be sent to it (the
>mail just disappears).  The syslog looks something like this:

I'm not sure but it sounds like protections or suid bits on either
/usr/lib/sendmail or /usr/spool/mail.  /usr/lib/sendmail should be 4755
and /usr/spool/mail should be 1777.

Mike


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