Having trouble sending mail as non-root user: What are the groups mail and maildrop for?
Howdy, I'm having trouble with pine. It works fine as root, but for other users it doesn't actually send mail, it just locks up. I'm afraid it might be a permissions thing with something besides pine it's self - more like with postfix. Anyone had similar troubles? I seem to remember running into this once before in the way distant past, but don't know how I got around it. Anyway, I see that there's a group "mail" and a group "maildrop" , does that have anything to do with it? ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
On Thursday 31 May 2001 08:03 pm, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Howdy,
I'm having trouble with pine. It works fine as root, but for other users it doesn't actually send mail, it just locks up. I'm afraid it might be a permissions thing with something besides pine it's self - more like with postfix. Anyone had similar troubles? I seem to remember running into this once before in the way distant past, but don't know how I got around it.
Anyway, I see that there's a group "mail" and a group "maildrop" , does that have anything to do with it?
---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
I had this problem before, and it's annoying as hell. The problem was that it was having lots of troubles sending through the MTA as a local program, so I set up pine to use the local SMTP server. It did the trick. Good luck, Steven
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