Permission denied message in Debian 11

[Amooti73]

This is not really an mblaze issue, I would say. A search for "sendmail permission denied" brings quite a few results, none of which are specific to mblaze nor to Debian, except that it does not seem to happen with Ubuntu. However, I thought I would just report this challenge. I also then switched to dma to see if that might work, but the permission denied message persisted.

I was unable to find a solution within my "technical capacity". I just made a rather crude work around that would allow me to use mcom and mrep as a root user.

When one is root, then $HOME=/root, so, sorry, but I hacked the mcom script to replace $HOME with /home/user (/home/john in my case) and also placed an export statement in /root/.bashrc to so that $MBLAZE points to /home/user/.mblaze

Things worked in Debian 10, but...

I'm sure there are more "elegant" ways to handle this!

[leahneukirchen]

It's not clear to me what you are doing nor what fails exactly.

Can you run sendmail directly as root?

[Amooti73]

What fails is sending! That is after composing the email in vim and saving it, the mail program gives and error message when one tries to actually send the message.

I have attached a screenshot from my terminal. I hope it is readable!

I am able to send a message with mcom as root, but mrep needs to access the sequence and that required me to export the MBLAZE variable in /root/.bashrc

I don't know if I have clarified things at all!

[Amooti73]

Just a small addition is that after configuring either sendmail or dma, I am able to send mail from the command line using "mail" and without root access. No error there!

[Amooti73]

Just a quick note that when I set Sendmail in .mblaze/profile equal to mail, the problem disappears.

[Amooti73]

All was going well as mentioned in my post from last week until I tried sending an email to a large number of recipients and I was confronted by this error with dma. So, today I returned to sendmail which does not have the limitation that dma has. I left my .mblaze/profile alone with the "Sendmail: mail" setting and that's OK. I could send an email to about 100 recipients without any error.

Thanks!