local email sending/receiving problem

htm · 04-09-2004, 11:49 AM

On Redhat 9.0 server, I use sendmail to sedn email, and it just works fine.
But when I send email from root@localhost to guest@localhost, and su guest,
then do a mail to check email, th system says:

guest@localhost mail]$ mail
/var/spool/mail/root: Permission denied

Why?

I wanna fix this problem since I am gathering if someone else needs to send email
to guest instead of root from outside, that would create a problem for me.

Thx,
HTM

coolamit78 · 04-09-2004, 12:16 PM

Well, when you log in as guest and give the command mail, the system checks that u r signed in as a normal user and the mail command tries to access root's mailbox for which it dosent have permission. Hence I guess the permission denied error.

You should in fact use a new terminal session ( tty 1 to 6) and log in as guest to find out if u arent able to access mail.

Regards,

amit

htm · 04-09-2004, 11:06 PM

By commenting 127.0.0.1 line in sendmail.mc and recompile (thx to a friend's help in this forum), I fixed the email receiving problem, but
unfortunately I cannot send email out anymore (locally it still wokrs), why?
How to fix that while still keeping my email receiving capability working?

Thx,
HTM