Sendmail/Evolution Can"t send except from root

For an odd reason (using Fedora 7 and Evolution 2.10.3) I cannot send
mail as a regular user. I can however receive mail with no problem. I
constantly get the message "sendmail exited with message status 65" in
evolution. However when I send a mail from a shell prompt it goes
through with absolutely no problems. If I log into a GUI (Gnome)
interface with root I can send a mail through evolution with no
problems. Oddly I have *not* made any changes I simply rebooted the
machine and have encountered this. I'm surmising the problem is either
a permission or a problem in evolution but being rather new to Linux
I'm at a loss. Any assistance is appreciated and I can furnish any
further other info that is required.

Bo@tampabay.rr.com

Re: Sendmail/Evolution Can"t send except from root

In article <1192475302.186892.40760@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
Bo33778@tampabay.rr.com writes:
>For an odd reason (using Fedora 7 and Evolution 2.10.3) I cannot send
>mail as a regular user. I can however receive mail with no problem. I
>constantly get the message "sendmail exited with message status 65" in
>evolution. However when I send a mail from a shell prompt it goes
>through with absolutely no problems. If I log into a GUI (Gnome)
>interface with root I can send a mail through evolution with no
>problems. Oddly I have *not* made any changes I simply rebooted the
>machine and have encountered this. I'm surmising the problem is either
>a permission or a problem in evolution but being rather new to Linux
>I'm at a loss. Any assistance is appreciated and I can furnish any
>further other info that is required.

When you "send a mail from a shell prompt", are you doing it as regular
user or as root, and what program are you using for that (if not
invoking sendmail directly)? At least if you're doing it as root, a
permission problem in the setup of the sendamil MSP (Message Submission
Program) seems likely. The proper permissions are listed in the file
sendmail/SECURITY in the source distribution - in case you don't have
that, here is the relevant excerpt:

-r-xr-sr-x root smmsp ... /PATH/TO/sendmail
drwxrwx--- smmsp smmsp ... /var/spool/clientmqueue
drwx------ root wheel ... /var/spool/mqueue
-r--r--r-- root wheel ... /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
-r--r--r-- root wheel ... /etc/mail/submit.cf

[Notice: On some OS "wheel" is not used but "bin" or "root" instead,
however, this is not important here.]


--Per Hedeland
per@hedeland.org