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Darren Merritt (djmer@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:
: I have been working on this for days but have been beaten so far..
: When sending mail (ie: from pine or Elm) I can do it from root but not as 
: a user.  The error message in Pine is:
: 451 failed to queue message: spool file call_mailer ERROR: Mail not sent.
: In my smail paniclog it says: cannot create spool file, dir=/var/spool/smail
: 
: I have checked permissions, links, .. whatever I can think of over and 
: over and can't work out why it only works while logged in as root.
: If anyone has an answer, idea or even a guess where to look, I'ld be very 
: appreciative.
: 
: Many thanks,
: Darren Merritt
: email: djmer@quest.apana.org.au
: 
my permissions for smail look like :
drwxr-xr-x   6 mail     root         1024 Nov 30 06:57 smail

pls post the results of 'ls -l /var/spool/smail'

cm
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