Proper settings to allow web server to send mail

Jeff MacDonald jam at zoidtechnologies.com
Tue Jan 10 22:45:13 UTC 2012


Greetings,

On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 05:19:22 PM Steven Stern wrote:
> I found this in my maillog:
> 
> Jan 10 13:54:02 scarletfire sendmail[9824]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(apache): can
> not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
> 
[...snipped...]
> 
> What is the proper settings to allow a web server to do whatever it was
> trying to do here... (Or was this something bad that SELINUX prevented)

I would use SMTP instead of calling sendmail directly.

Regards,
J


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