Re: help, I've crippled my gnus

[SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org>]

Uh oh.  ding@gnus.org is still bombing for me:

The original message was received at Thu, 9 Jul 1998 22:04:44 -0700
from steve@localhost

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
ding@gnus.org

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to claymore.vcinet.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<ding@gnus.org>
<<< 551 we do not relay
550 ding@gnus.org... User unknown


root  <root@twocups.tanet.net> writes:

> OK, I can send mail from root, but not from any user.  I'm thinking
> this is probably a permissions problem, but I can't find the culprit.

> /tmp is 1777 root.root
> /var/spool/mail is 775 root.mail
> /var/spool/mqueue is 755 root.mail

> These are probably too loose, if anything.  I don't know what else to
> look at.

Being able to do something as root but not as an oridinary user is a
permission problem 99.9999% of the time.  The permissions you listed
look fine.  Is your sendmail binary properly setuid/setgid?

You might also try using smtpmail and talking to the local mail server
over a network socket.

To use smtpmail you would need to set something like:

(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
;; If this bombs, add `(autoload 'smtpmail-send-it "smtpmail")', I
;; forget which version of XEmacs we fixed this in.

(setq smtpmail-smtp-server "localhost")