I made me a nice little SquirrelMail to acess my mail from web. I set-up an imap to catch my mail. So i get mail sent to me just fine. And i set up sendmail to send my mail, actualy sendmail was configured already bevore to send mail from a KMail 1.9.1 in my KDE desktop. Now when i try to send mail from SquirrelMail i get this error which i dont know how to fix:

Server replied: 127 Can't execute command '/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t -ftomaz@likegod.org'

I have no ideer to even start to debug this. sendmail is executable for all users on my box, so dunno why he cant execute that. And in SquirrelMail conf.pl sendmail is configured to run from /usr/sbin/sendmail so path is ok too.

So a ? on that

And one more. If i open up KMail 1.9.1 now when i have my webmail thingy also working the mails dissaper the moment KMail fetches them. Probably it uses diffrent mail structure or something. So how to fix this to use with both (see same thing on boath KMail and SquirrelMail).

Thx for the answers.

The last part of your message about disappearing email. It reads as if you have kmail setup to work with your local mail files, if it were me I'd set it up to work with my IMAP server instead. Also, check that it's not moving the messages from the server (even though it's on the same box, it may move them to a local directory it uses to store your mail).

The first part:
Run the problem:
/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t whatever@whoever.com
And see if you get any feedback from the terminal on what's actually going on. My (quick) guess is that /usr/sbin might not be letting a non-root user execute files in that directory; it may have created a symlink in /usr/bin for system users to use sendmail. Use a:
whereis sendmail
To get a list of all the sendmail executables in your $PATH variable.

Good Luck!

Cool

I checked that but that isnt the problem, i tried numerous paths and done +x for all users but it still says it cannot execute sendmail :S

Any more info ?

btw. i fixed the kmail and that dissapering mail issue so i use now imap thx on that

thx.

Yeah, I have the same problem.

just hangs producing no output...

yes, executables are in /usr/sbin but all of my files (related to sendmail) are executable by users... here's the output for:

ls -ahl /usr/sbin/sendmail
ls -ahl /etc/alternatives/mta
ls -ahl /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
So I am not sure what causes this error message in squirrelmail... Please advise.
Thanks

Well i actualy have fixed that. But only when i switched to opensuse 10.2 so i reinstalled the system, then done the same thing i have done before setting squirel up, any now it works without any problems out of the box

So i really do not know what was wrong before.

I'm using CentOS 5.0 and actualy i'm fix this problem using the RPM system-switch-mail

Hi

In Fedora 6 or 7, I solved this problem by disabling SELinux security. I believe it sets restrictions to regular users from executing sendmail.

Hope this helps.

Atonzi

On a FC7 box I created this same problem by switching Safe Mode to On in the php.ini.

Switched it off and was back up and running.

in php.ini:

safe_mode = Off

OR set it up to allow using sendmail.

I had the same problem and fixed it by telling squirrelmail to use SMTP instead of sendmail (pointing to localhost for the SMTP server). I am running selinux in enforcing mode and PHP in safe mode, and it works. I would have to have a really good reason before I turned off selinux (no other software options, no configuration alternatives that work, must have this software, preferably have disconnected from network, etc...). Selinux provides such excellent protection.

Maria