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[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

> # chmod -R root:root /etc/mail
> # ls -la /etc/mail/
> total 384
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Jun  2 16:02 .
> drwxr-xr-x  82 root root 12288 Jun  5 16:40 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  9243 Jun  2 15:48 sympa_aliases
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 24576 Jun  5 16:40 sympa_aliases.db

That's not going to work, because the sympa processes run as the sympa 
user, and that user needs to be able to update those files.  So they need 
to be owned (or at least, writeable) by sympa, which works fine on our 
system, using Postfix.  If Sendmail really imposes the restriction that 
Peter mentions, then I guess you'll need to keep them owned by root but 
make them writeable by everyone, or else add the root user to the sympa 
group and just make them group-writeable.

     ab