[ISSUE] Permission denied message in Debian 11

[ISSUE] Permission denied message in Debian 11

[Amooti73]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 988 bytes --]

New issue by Amooti73 on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/216

Description:
This is not really an mblaze issue, I would say.  A search for "sendmail permission denied" brings quite a few results, none of which are specific to mblaze nor to Debian, except that it does not seem to happen with Ubuntu. However, I thought I would just report this challenge.  I also then switched to dma to see if that might work, but the permission denied message persisted.

I was unable to find a solution within my "technical capacity".  I just made a rather crude work around that would allow me to use mcom and mrep as a root user.

When one is root, then $HOME=/root, so, sorry, but I hacked the mcom script to replace $HOME with /home/user (/home/john in my case) and also placed an export statement in /root/.bashrc to so that $MBLAZE points to  /home/user/.mblaze

Things worked in Debian 10, but...

I'm sure there are more "elegant" ways to handle this!

Re: Permission denied message in Debian 11

[leahneukirchen]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 243 bytes --]

New comment by leahneukirchen on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/216#issuecomment-950942984

Comment:
It's not clear to me what you are doing nor what fails exactly.

Can you run sendmail directly as root?

Re: Permission denied message in Debian 11

[Amooti73]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 709 bytes --]

New comment by Amooti73 on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/216#issuecomment-951024748

Comment:
What fails is sending!  That is after composing the email in vim and saving it, the mail program gives and error message when one tries to actually send the message.

![img-2021-10-25-175757](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/28224877/138720138-5b557dab-492e-40e4-a30d-3f8c05ee10a4.png)

I have attached a screenshot from my terminal.  I hope it is readable!

I am able to send a message with mcom as root, but mrep needs to access the sequence and that required me to export the MBLAZE variable in /root/.bashrc

I don't know if I have clarified things at all!

Re: Permission denied message in Debian 11

[Amooti73]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 709 bytes --]

New comment by Amooti73 on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/216#issuecomment-951024748

Comment:
What fails is sending!  That is after composing the email in vim and saving it, the mail program gives and error message when one tries to actually send the message.

![img-2021-10-25-175757](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/28224877/138723349-239ec95c-d562-453f-81ad-d2e022b2ad49.png)

I have attached a screenshot from my terminal.  I hope it is readable!

I am able to send a message with mcom as root, but mrep needs to access the sequence and that required me to export the MBLAZE variable in /root/.bashrc

I don't know if I have clarified things at all!

Re: Permission denied message in Debian 11

[Amooti73]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 303 bytes --]

New comment by Amooti73 on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/216#issuecomment-951038052

Comment:
Just a small addition is that after configuring either sendmail or dma, I am able to send mail from the command line using "mail" and without root access.  No error there!

Re: Permission denied message in Debian 11

[Amooti73]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 232 bytes --]

New comment by Amooti73 on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/216#issuecomment-953457675

Comment:
Just a quick note that when I set Sendmail in .mblaze/profile equal to mail, the problem disappears.

Re: Permission denied message in Debian 11

[Amooti73]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 583 bytes --]

New comment by Amooti73 on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/216#issuecomment-962435848

Comment:
All was going well as mentioned in my post from last week until I tried sending an email to a large number of recipients and I was confronted by [this error](https://github.com/corecode/dma/issues/18) with dma. So, today I returned to sendmail which does not have the limitation that dma has.  I left my .mblaze/profile alone with the "Sendmail: mail" setting and that's OK.  I could send an email to about 100 recipients without any error.

Thanks!

Re: [ISSUE] [CLOSED] Permission denied message in Debian 11

[leahneukirchen]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 991 bytes --]

Closed issue by Amooti73 on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/216

Description:
This is not really an mblaze issue, I would say.  A search for "sendmail permission denied" brings quite a few results, none of which are specific to mblaze nor to Debian, except that it does not seem to happen with Ubuntu. However, I thought I would just report this challenge.  I also then switched to dma to see if that might work, but the permission denied message persisted.

I was unable to find a solution within my "technical capacity".  I just made a rather crude work around that would allow me to use mcom and mrep as a root user.

When one is root, then $HOME=/root, so, sorry, but I hacked the mcom script to replace $HOME with /home/user (/home/john in my case) and also placed an export statement in /root/.bashrc to so that $MBLAZE points to  /home/user/.mblaze

Things worked in Debian 10, but...

I'm sure there are more "elegant" ways to handle this!