Re: [cobalt-users] Sendmail PKG has totally knackered my email

["ISEE Multimedia" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> > A few people seem to be having this problem, can anyone help please!!!!
>
> I don't run email on our Cobalts and I haven't messed with the
> any of the packages available for Cobalts so what follows is probably a
> waste of your time. But since I've seen no other responses I thought this
> one might help.
>
> This could be the result of a simple permission problem. While
> this behavior can be changed and it may have been changed for use on a
> Cobalt, sendmail no longer runs as root. Well, it really isn't that simple
> but this discussion simplicity will do. With that said, check to make sure
> the pop-before-smtp database is being created (its probably in /etc/mail)
> and check it's permissions. It will have to be readable by sendmail which,
> if it's behavior has not been changed, is probably running as root/smmsp.
>
> Second, the newer versions of sendmail can't read the database
> maps the older versions use. Being that I don't have a installation here
> to tweak telling you how to fix/troubleshoot this is kind of difficult.
> With nothing more than a bit of experience to go on I'd recommend
> stopping sendmail, then stopping pop-before-smtp, then deleting the
> existing pop-before-smtp database and then starting sendmail and then
> starting pop-before-smtp and then sit back and see what happens. If that
> does not fix it and the permissions are right the pop-before-smtp
> daemon or script, which ever the case may be, may require a bit of
> tweaking in order to get it to create properly formatted maps  and I'll
> have to leave that to someone who has access to the code as I don't.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Brent
>

thanks brent, i will do some digging, but im not that competent so if anyone
else can
help it would be much appreciated.

Also, how do we bring these package problems to the attention of the people
at sun?

Mark