[SlugBug] mail problem

[Bill Best]

hi

Bill Best wrote:

> i have postfix installed which has been aliased to sendmail and the 
> permissions look correct to me, thus:
> 
>> [root at test root]# ls /usr/sbin/sendmail -la
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 21 Aug 13  2004 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> 
>> /etc/alternatives/mta
>> [root at test root]# ls /usr/sbin/postfix -la
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 64336 Mar 31  2004 /usr/sbin/postfix
> 
> root can send mail fine to both local and external users so i think this 
>  _has_ to be some sort of permissions problem. 

it was indeed a weird permissions problem with /etc/alternatives/mta 
which has now been resolved.

bill