Article:		Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3
Subject:		Can't send mail: broken in X 10.1.5????
Date:		2002-06-05 18:47:20
From:		baltwo
Followed your example and set up mail and got two daily reports. Installed 10.1.5 update and couldn't send/receive mail, so I went through your steps and get an error when trying to send mail. Here's where I'm at and I don't really understand what's going on. [localhost:~] baltwo% sudo chmod g-w / [localhost:~] baltwo% mail root Subject: test this is it . EOT [localhost:~] baltwo% can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser. How do I set privileges for "program mode"?

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• Can't send mail: broken in X 10.1.5????
  2002-06-07 09:16:24  Chris Stone | [View]
  
  
  Sorry for the delay responding to this, but expect an extended fix update sometime today. In the meantime, follow the steps in /etc/mail/README (including the 2 netinfo commands), and that should get you going again.
  
  Thanks,
  
  --Chris

• Can't send mail: broken in X 10.1.5????
  2002-06-06 22:37:21  miscdebris [View]
  
  
  I am experiencing exactly the same error with 10.1.5. I had sendmail working properly under 10.1 through 10.1.3 with the DontBlameSendmail directive set properly, but with 10.1.5 sendmail doesn't want to work.
  
  I receive this message in the terminal: "can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied. Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser."
  
  then in mail.log, the following entries appear:
  
  unable to qualify my own domain name (localhost) -- using short name
  
  NOQUEUE: SYSERR(tim): can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied"
  
  Any ideas what's going on?