mailpost

[Russ Allbery]

Reed Lai <reed at icpdas.com> writes:

> I am trying mailpost on my FreeBSD 4.0 box.  I can do mailpost to
> group by root, for example

>   cat mbox | /usr/local/news/bin/mailpost local.test

> but I cannot do it via mail action, and always got messages

> ----------------------
>  ... 
>  No write permission to ndbm file at /usr/local/news/bin/mailpost line 348, <STDIN> chunk 29.
>  554 "|/usr/local/news/bin/mailpost -d localhost local.test"... unknown mailer error 1
>  ...

You've probably long ago solved this problem, but just in case you hadn't,
the problem is that sendmail runs programs as daemon and mailpost is
probably expecting to have write access to files that are owned by news.

chowning the files to daemon or digging into sendmail configuration to
convince it to run that program as news should fix the problem.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>