From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15563 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: SL Baur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: help, I've crippled my gnus Date: 09 Jul 1998 22:12:26 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154573 22802 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:56:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:56:13 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA21688 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 22:15:21 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA10271 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 01:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAT07411; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 23:46:00 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 10 Jul 1998 00:10:11 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from altair.xemacs.org (steve@xemacs.miranova.com [206.190.83.19]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA09312 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 00:09:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) id WAA21630; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 22:12:26 -0700 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu X-Face: (:YAD@JS'&Kz'M}n7eX7gEvPR6U1mJ-kt;asEc2qAv;h{Yw7ckz<7+X_SYeTNAaPui:e~x$ ,A=gkt*>UPL/}\a/#C~v2%ETiAY_sx;xve0yL??JWTtX_-NUzXyP38UdW#cmN1\4(X!c3m#%IbtB-3 Z-!xpZi!`E.s{(;aP=b11"!3wQu]1j@^V|;n=B|{l>> RCPT To: <<< 551 we do not relay 550 ding@gnus.org... User unknown root 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")