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At 05:45 PM 7/30/2008, Andy Christianson wrote:
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> > Check perms on /var/mail that it is set to 775
> >
> >         -Derek
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>
>/var/mail is at 775, so that's not it...
>
>[andy@fbsd ~]$ stat /var/mail
>89 47105 drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 188185 512 "Jul 30 03:01:51 2008" "Jul 30
>16:35:18 2008" "Jul 30 16:35:18 2008" "Feb 24 12:49:40 2008" 4096 4 0
>/var/mail


I would kick up the logging on sendmail to see better what is going on and 
where the failure really is.  You can add:
-O LogLevel=80
To your sendmail options in /etc/rc.conf

Since root can send mail but regular users cannot, it sounds like a 
permission problem somewhere.

         -Derek

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