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Help with email error: can't get working directory

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From: Kevin C. Rarick
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:17
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An email/sendmail problem:
Any user of group "other" on my network gets the following bounced mail message  
when trying to send email.

Here is a sample of the bounce:

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:56:56 -0800
From: Mailer-Agent (NeXT Mail Agent)
Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 255
To: djones

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
can't get working directory; will try to continue
uux failed. code -1
554 <francisr@indiana.edu>... 554 unknown mailer error 255

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <djones>
Received: from front1 by hsd.com (NX5.67c/NeXT-2.0_HSD)
	id AA00992; Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:56:56 -0800
From: djones (Danielle C. Jones)
Message-Id: <9212141856.AA00992@hsd.com>
Received: by front1. (NX5.67c/NX3.0X)
	id AA01873; Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:43:43 -0800
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:43:43 -0800
Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.87.1)
Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.87.1)
To: francisr@indiana.edu
Subject: information on products
Reply-To: Danielle Jones <djones@hsd.com>

**** <end of sample mail message>

This is in contrast to a user who is of group "staff" who is able to  
successfully send email. This problem seemed to appear after making a slight  
modification to the sendmail.cf config file. I wanted jobs to be queued so in  
the uucp mailer I added the -r option to the uux command. I don't see any  
direct correlation. Perhaps a file permission problem. Any thoughts and  
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Kevin Rarick
HSD Microcomputer US, Inc.
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Message-ID: <1992Dec14.191716.1237@dakota.hsd.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!portal!dakota!news

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!portal!dakota!news
From: krarick@hsd.com (Kevin C. Rarick)
Subject: Help with email error: can't get working directory
Message-ID: <1992Dec14.191716.1237@dakota.hsd.com>
Sender: news@dakota.hsd.com
Nntp-Posting-Host: eng1
Reply-To: krarick@hsd.com
Organization: HSD Microcomputer U.S., Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:17:16 GMT
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