Re: Mail problem

[soenke@escher.north.de (Soenke Lange)]

Hallo Zlatko Rek, IJS
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have problem with mail. Only root can send mail to himself, all other 
> combinations (root->user, user->root, user->user) fail. The sample of failed 
> mail is attached. It was very late when I've installed Debian/Linux on my
> home PC and maybe I missed something when configuration was performed.
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> |------------------------- Message log follows: -------------------------|
>  Xfail: <rek> reason: (ERR133) transport local: failed to open output file: 
> Permission denied
> |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------|
>  rek ... transport local: failed to open output file: Permission denied
> |------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------|
> Received: by eddie (Smail3.1.29.1 #33)
> 	id m0toyN4-0002DeC; Tue, 20 Feb 96 21:09 MET
> Message-Id: <m0toyN4-0002DeC@eddie>
please verify that smail is suid root.

soenke@escher:~$ ls -l /usr/sbin/smail
-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root       272508 Jan 21 20:09 /usr/sbin/smail
   ^

The missing suid-bit may indicate that you missed something in the
installation, just my 0.02$.

regards
	Soenke