Email problem

[admin at kclinux.net]

I tried what you said and still got the same errors.  I finally gave up 
and did the following:

rpm -e spamassassin
rpm -e mutt
rpm -e procmail
rpm -e sendmail

And then made sure all the sendmail configs were deleted in /etc/mail

Then ran apt-get install sendmail (with the fedoranews.org howto configs)
 
Installed, configured, and runs beautiful now.

Just the answer on what fixed me if anyone else has this problem and 
searches the archives.

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Fr, den 20.02.2004 schrieb admin at kclinux.net um 17:04:
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>>DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
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>With this setting Sendmail is bound to only listen on localhost. With
>this setting you can not receive mail from outside the mail host. Either
>set a "dnl" in front of that line or add at least one additional
>DAEMON_OPTIONS() line to let Sendmail listen on an outbound IP. (This is
>documented in the sendmail.mc file tiself.) 
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>>>From log:
>>Feb 20 09:17:25 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9549]: Trying to get mailbox lock from
>>process 9547
>>Feb 20 09:17:25 dnsrv1 imapd[9548]: Killed (lost mailbox lock)
>>user=support host=CPE-65-28-107-145.kc.rr.com [65.28.107.145]
>>Feb 20 09:17:25 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9551]: Trying to get mailbox lock from
>>process 9548
>>Feb 20 09:17:25 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9550]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory
>>/var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
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>Wrong permissions on /var/spool/mail! So the POP3 daemon is complaining.
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>chmod 775 /var/spool/mail
>chown root.mail /var/spool/mail
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>User mailbox files have chmod 660 and chown $USER.mail
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>>Feb 20 09:17:25 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9550]: Auth user=security
>>host=CPE-65-28-107-145.kc.rr.com [65.28.107.145] nmsgs=664/664
>>Feb 20 09:17:26 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9550]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory
>>/var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
>>Feb 20 09:17:26 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9550]: Logout user=security
>>host=CPE-65-28-107-145.kc.rr.com [65.28.107.145] nmsgs=664 ndele=0
>>Feb 20 09:17:26 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9549]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory
>>/var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
>>Feb 20 09:17:26 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9551]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory
>>/var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
>>Feb 20 09:17:26 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9549]: Auth user=sales
>>host=CPE-65-28-107-145.kc.rr.com [65.28.107.145] nmsgs=91/91
>>Feb 20 09:17:26 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9551]: Auth user=support
>>host=CPE-65-28-107-145.kc.rr.com [65.28.107.145] nmsgs=10/10
>>Feb 20 09:17:27 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9551]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory
>>/var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
>>Feb 20 09:17:27 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9551]: Logout user=support
>>host=CPE-65-28-107-145.kc.rr.com [65.28.107.145] nmsgs=10 ndele=0
>>Feb 20 09:17:27 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9549]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory
>>/var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
>>Feb 20 09:17:27 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9549]: Logout user=sales
>>host=CPE-65-28-107-145.kc.rr.com [65.28.107.145] nmsgs=91 ndele=0
>>Feb 20 09:19:25 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9564]: pop3 service init from 65.28.107.145
>>Feb 20 09:19:25 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9562]: pop3 service init from 65.28.107.145
>>Feb 20 09:19:25 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9563]: pop3 service init from 65.28.107.145
>>Feb 20 09:19:25 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9563]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory
>>/var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
>>Feb 20 09:19:25 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9564]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory
>>/var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
>>Feb 20 09:19:25 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9562]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory
>>/var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
>>Feb 20 09:19:25 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9563]: Auth user=security
>>host=CPE-65-28-107-145.kc.rr.com [65.28.107.145] nmsgs=664/664
>>Feb 20 09:19:25 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9564]: Auth user=support
>>host=CPE-65-28-107-145.kc.rr.com [65.28.107.145] nmsgs=10/10
>>Feb 20 09:19:25 dnsrv1 ipop3d[9562]: Auth user=sales
>>host=CPE-65-28-107-145.kc.rr.com [65.28.107.145] nmsgs=91/91
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>There is not any sendmail logentry to be found!
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>Alexander
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