Re: smail says "550 You are not permitted to send mail"
Sendmail (which is smail, anyway) doesn't work either.
It neither sends the mail nor returns it to the sender like it claims to.
-chris
09:33:06</usr/sbin>$ sendmail root
aoeusnaohe
09:33:20</usr/sbin>$ smail: mail moved to /var/spool/smail/error/13FJGC-0006PKC
09:33:43</home/krzys># cat /var/spool/smail/error/13FJGC-0006PKC
!root
!0 1000
!-oem
!-f
!<+>
!-oMs
!cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com
!-oMr
!bsmtp
!-oMP
!smail
!<krzys>
From: <MAILER-DAEMON@cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com>
To: krzys
Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
Reference: <m13FJG4-0006PHC@cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com>
|------------------------- Message log follows: -------------------------|
no valid recipients were found for this message
|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------|
root ... unknown user
|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------|
Received: from localhost (69 bytes) by cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com
via sendmail with P:stdio/T:error
(sender: <krzys>) (ident <krzys> using unix)
id <m13FJG4-0006PHC@cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com>
for <unknown>; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:33:12 -0700 (PDT)
(Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 2000-Feb-23)
Message-Id: <m13FJG4-0006PHC@cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:33:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: krzys (Krzys Majewski)
To: root
aoeusnaohe
09:33:47</home/krzys># cd /var/spool/mail/
09:34:22</var/spool/mail># la
total 2
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 Mar 1 09:59 ./
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Jul 9 16:24 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 krzys mail 0 Feb 6 11:58 krzys
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:58:47AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
>
> > 550 You are not permitted to send mail
>
> localhost isn't in the list of systems that smail will allow to forward
> mail through it. How you tell smail about that I don't know.
>
> > What gives? The only reason I'm trying to set this up is so that
> > things like cron jobs will send email to root, as advertised.
>
> Most things of that sort will use /usr/sbin/sendmail rather than SMTP
> to inject mail, bypassing this check.
>
> --
> Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
> http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
> EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
>
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