I seem to be having some trouble with sendmail. I cannot seem to get it to send or receive anything and I am quite puzzled as to why.
I have tried the following:
1. Running in daemon mode
2. Running with suid and sgid still on the sendmail binary (turned off when that did not work).
3. Made sure Iptables and /etc/hosts.allow and .deny were configured properly (they are)
4. Made sure that /etc/sysconfig/sendmail had DAEMON=yes. (It does)


I am more concerned with out going that incoming mail. I receive the following errors:

Dec 27 07:02:23 nhtigl sendmail[26805]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(apache): can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
The perms on the folder are drwxrwx--- smmsp smmsp (This was default)
And

Dec 27 08:05:03 nhtigl sendmail[2014]: iBRD4NbW002014: to=mlind@nhctc.edu, delay=00:00:40, mailer=esmtp, pri=87722, dsn=4.4.3, stat=queued

The last one I know is just telling me that the message cannot be sent so it is being queued up, but the address is valid so I do not know why it is not working.

Any help in this matter would be much appreciated, thanks.

It looks like you have configured sendmail to run as the user "apache" and since this user does not have rwx access to the clientmqueue directory it is unable to write the e-mails to the queue.

Are you trying to run sendmail as apache?

Nope, I don't have sendmail running as apache. My website however, does have a web based emailing system. Could apache be trying to go direct to the queue rather than going to sendmail and then out? If so how would I resolve this?

Thanks

ps auxw | grep sendmail

Need that output.

What the first reply is saying is correct from the output you provided, which is apache is running sendmail,which would explain why the error occurred since the directory in question is not world readable.

Here is the output you requested:

Thanks for all the help.