Re: Sendmail Error- RunAsUser: unknown user smmsp

[Tim Kloss <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It may (at a wild guess) be something to do with this recent post...



> From: anita@xxxxxxxxx (Anita Holmgren)
> Date: Fri Jun 14, 2002  01:45:04  am Europe/London
> To: itools@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [How to fix]....Sendmail Problems with iTools
> Reply-To: itools@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > At 5:31 PM -0700 6/13/02, Kamran Fahimi wrote:
> > I am new to OSX and iTools, so I might be way off on this.  I will 
> > be replacing my WebTen with iTools in July, but have been on the 
> > iTools list for a couple of months gathering information on what to 
> > expect when I do my switch.
> >
> > Anyway, I have been following the Sendmail problems people have 
> > been talking about the past few days.  Today on the MacFixIt web 
> > site I read about a problem Griffin Technology posted to MacFixIt 
> > regarding a bug in Apple's "Package Maker" and the "Apple 
> > Installer".
>
> Thanks Kamran for the helpful post, but this is not at all related 
> to the sendmail problem in Mac OS X 10.1.5.
>
> The sendmail issue is that Mac OS X 10.1.5 has the wrong permissions 
> on the /var/spool/clientmqueue folder.
>
> The permissions should be:
> drwxrwx---   6 root  smmsp   160 Jun 12 11:32 clientmqueue
>
> Not:
> drwxrwx---   6 root  wheel   160 Jun 12 11:32 clientmqueue
>
>
> This bug prevents users from using sendmail as a mailer agent.
>
> No cgis that use sendmail will work.
> Sendmail will report the error:
>
> can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
> Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.
>
> As was pointed out by Eric Pooch in a previous message:
>
> Because the iTools sendmail installer does not edit the 
> /var/spool/clientmailqueue, we don't correct this error.  So the Mac 
> OS X error effectively breaks iTools.
>
> The solution is to enter :
>
> sudo chgrp smmsp /var/spool/clientmqueue
>
> in the Terminal Application.
>
> -Anita
>
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On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 05:28  am, [DJLA.COM] Stace A Baal wrote:

> List,
>
> Last night I upgraded from 10.1.4 (client) and iTools 6.5.2 and am now
> getting errors when sending mail.
>
> 1. Installed Apple security, Network, 10.1.5 Update.
> 2. Ran the iTools 6.5.4 Core Software Installer
>
> My PHP 'Configure Command' options had changed from the default iTools
> options so:
>
> 3. Ran iTools PHP4-4.2.1.pkg
>
> Did a reboot (just to make myself feel better) and all sites functioned
> normally. Except now, I get the following error whenever a script attempts
> to send mail.
>
> Jul 24 21:17:29 www sendmail[10404]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(www):
> /etc/mail/submit.cf: line 416: readcf: option RunAsUser: unknown user smmsp
> Jul 24 21:17:29 www sendmail[10404]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(www):
> /etc/mail/submit.cf: line 435: readcf: option TrustedUser: unknown user
> smmsp
>
> Any idea how to fix this?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards
> Stace Baal
>
> (Oh, iTools only, no PostOffice installed.)
>
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