I have configured my server with Sendmail and Dovecot as a pop3 & imap server. I'm able to send and receive mail from Outlook or Thunderbird via pop. But, when I tried to login from my web interface I get permission denied. So, I ran the configtest.php and I get this error return:

SquirrelMail configtest

This script will try to check some aspects of your SquirrelMail configuration and point you to errors whereever it can find them. You need to go run conf.pl in the config/ directory first before you run this script.

SquirrelMail version: 1.4.6 [CVS]-0.cvs20050812.1.fc3
Config file version: 1.4.0
Config file last modified: 14 November 2005 17:00:45
Checking PHP configuration...
PHP version 4.3.11 OK.
PHP extensions OK.
Checking paths...
Data dir OK.
Attachment dir OK.
Plugins OK.
Themes OK.
Default language OK.
Base URL detected as: http://www.jurgiel.com/webmail/src
Checking outgoing mail service....

ERROR: Location of sendmail program incorrect (/usr/sbin/sendmail)!

I don't get it. Can any help????

Thanks
John

Anyone out there might have an answer?????

Hi I had a similiar issue, I changed the location to usr/lib/sendmail and the error moved on (this was on a Fedora Core 4 system), basically check the location of where send mail is.

ai6ksb,

I'm using FC3. Sendmail is location in "/usr/sbin/sendmail". Why it won't find it?

ai6ksb,

I changed the location to /usr/lib/sendmail and I still get the same error. Any other suggestion?

My mistake I am using Postfix instead of Sendmail, as it is supposed to be more secure and easier to configure. The configtest.php passes the stage where it looks for sendmail, however if fails IMAP, (thats another problem all together), hope that helps

ai6ksb,

I found the cause of my problem. It's SELinux which prevent accessing sendmail and imap through httpd. So, if I turn off SELinux by:

setenforce 0

Squirrelmail worked perfectly. But, as soon I turned SELinux back on by:

setenforce 1

Squirrelmail will get permission denied when I tried to login. So, now I need to figure out how to change SELinux to work with Squirrelmail. Because, I don't want to disable SELinux on my server. Any ideas????

c if this helps

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...selinux-guide/

I've just built fc3 box and got the same errors, i'd be interested if you find a solution to this problen

Thanks jayakrishnan
I enabled httpd_can_connect and it worked
I just need to know what it means and what are the implications of doing this?

Can you help?

ai6ksb,

where do you enable httpd_can_connect? How do you restart SELinux without rebooting the server?

Try this System Settings -> security -> SELinux -> Other

ai6ksb,

"httpd_can_connect" is not on the list. Also, I use shell via ssh to do most of my work.

I having FC5 and would like to setup simple mail server with Sendmail, Dovecot and SquirrelMail.

In the very begining, I can not login via SquirrelMail webmail interface. The problem of this thread just same as mine so I turn off the SELinux.

But now I want to go back how to configure sendmail. Are there any expert here?

Cheers

fhleung,

it's actually quite easy to fixed. Is your webmail work fine if you turn selinux off? If yes, you will need to install the selinux Policy targeted sources. Just follow these steps:

1. yum -y install selinux-targeted-sources
2. setenforce 0
3. audit2allow -l -i /var/log/messages >> /etc/selinux/targeted/src/policy/domains/misc/local.te
4. /usr/bin/make -C /etc/selinux/targeted/src/policy/ reload
5. setenforce 1
6. try to login again
7. repeat step 2 thru 6 if neccessary

This should fix your problem. Let me know if you need help.

John