Ok...first check your Pine settings to make sure you're telling it where
to find "sendmail" which should be /usr/sbin/sendmail, then (su) and
become root and issue this command to "reset" the permissions on sendmail:
chmod 755 /usr/sbin/sendmail
That should take care of your sending problems. This cropped up on me once
some time back and I chased the little bugger for about an hour before I
realized what was going on. After I change-moded the sendmail binary
things straightened out again.
You may also want to check your .pinrc file and make sure that the path to
sendmail is correctly stated and defined. There are two entries in there
for sendmail. The first one should look like this:
smtp=server=/usr/sbin/sendmail
and the other one should look like this:
sendmail-path=/usr/lib/sendmail
These two statements should appear in this manner and in this order in
your .pinerc file.
--
Mark
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* in order to get the rats up from below decks
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 fabian had this to say!
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Pine stays a while trying to send the message. It displays at the
> bottom of the screen "[Sending mail </>]" while the symbol between the
> "<" and ">" signs spins around.
> After that it displays the following error:
>
> [>SMTP greeting failure: 421 SMTP connection went away!<]
>
> to say afterwards "[Error sending:]"
> It is worth to tell that after using the mail command the user
> gets the this message from the system:
>
> send-mail: warning: sendmail is set-uid root, or is run from a
> set-uid root process
> Any idea how to fix this? Thank a lot.
>
> Fabian Penha.
>
> > What does Pine tell you when you try to send a message using the user
> > account?
> >
> >
>
> > I have the same problems with a recent installed LM 7.0. I don't
> have any file /etc/mail.deny or
> /etc/mail.allow. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Fabin Pea.
> >
> >
>
>
>
