From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 12:48:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E64D916A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:48:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from web60301.mail.yahoo.com (web60301.mail.yahoo.com [216.109.118.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1825B43D31 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:48:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from washville2003@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20031215204804.89264.qmail@web60301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.201.214.1] by web60301.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:48:04 PST Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:48:04 -0800 (PST) From: samy lancher To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20031215141522.GA583@ns1.tcbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: Email problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:48:09 -0000 Josh Paetzel wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:03:23PM -0800, samy lancher wrote: > Hello all, > I have 4.5 freebsd server with apache, php and mysql. i wrote a simple php program using mail(). The mail() function returns true without any error. but the problem is the email is never delivered. I viewed the log file for mail(/var/log/maillog) and i saw the following error: > > Server sendmail[351]:NOQUEUE:SYSERR(www):can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied. > > I would be really thankful if someone could tell me where i am doing wrong. > In php.ini, i have set sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail". > > thanks in advance. > Naveen. In PHP, mail() will always return true as long as it was able to successfully communicate with the mailserver. As you have seen, that has very little to do with whether or not your email will go through correctly or not. ;) Your error is coming because sendmail runs setuid, in this case to www, and www doesn't have write permissions to /var/spool/clientmqueue. Josh Paetzel Hello, thanks josh and martin for quick response. the persmissions on clientmqueue is as follows drwxrwx_ _ _ smmsp smmsp clientmqueue could you please tell me what changes i need to make. IMPORTANT thing is my email server is working fine, i use sendmail MTA and outlook MUA. I am able to send emails and view my received emails in outlook through my server. thanks, Naveen. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard