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In article <3644@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> 	The basic symptoms are as follows:  If you send local mail, the
> file in /usr/spool/mail/ ends up being owned by the sender.  If you send
> mail that gets delivered over the network (with the faulty machine on the
> receiving end) the spool file ends up being owned by deamon.  It looks for
> all the world like sendmail has stopped being suid root, but:
> 
> wombat> ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail
> -r-sr-x--x  1 root       139264 Nov  9 17:03 /usr/lib/sendmail*

My sun runs SunOS 4.0, so I'm not sure if this is your solution, but
my sendmail will reset its uid to that of the invoker under certain
circumstances (which I'm not too sure of).  Thus, it may be that your
mail program invoking sendmail may have lost its setuid root permission,
causing sendmail to reset its uid to that of the invoker, which would
be the sender for local mail, and daemon for remote mail, wouldn't it?

Tony Landells	<ahl@technix.oz.au>
		<ahl%technix.oz.au@uunet.uu.net>