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[Craig Carey <address@concealed>]

At 04:28 19.11.99 , Barbara Schelkle wrote:
>Hi Eugen,
>
>> I'm getting this strange error when sending mail to
>> address@concealed. It's something like this:
>> 
>       ...
>> sh: queue not available for sendmail programs
>> 554 "|/home/sympa/bin/queue ngo-subscribe"... Service unavailable
>
>this is a FAQ on sendmail. Look at 
>http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.34
>
...
The FAQ advice says: "Q3.34 -- What does "foo not available for
 sendmail programs" mean? ... you need to create a sym-link from
 smrsh's directory for restricted programs".
That advice seems to be most appropriate for sendmail "unknown
 mailer error", and not appropriate.


(1) Sometimes, if sendmail says

    "554 : "|/etc/smrsh/queue sympa"... Service unavailable"

 then the problem can sometimes be fixed by doing this:

   chmod a+x /home/sympa/bin
   chmod og-rw /home/sympa/bin


*-------------------------------------------------------------------
   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
: "|/etc/smrsh/queue sympa"
    (expanded from: <address@concealed>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
sh: queue not available for sendmail programs
554 : "|/etc/smrsh/queue sympa"... Service unavailable
*-------------------------------------------------------------------


(2) A bad link from /etc/smrsh, or no read access, can lead to this
 sendmail error message:

"|/etc/smrsh/sympa2smartlist.pl ...-list"... unknown mailer error 255



(3) Another problem that can occur is when queue fails and it has no
 suid bit(s) set (chmod *+s queue) and there also is no write access
 to the sympa/spool/ directory.