Access to sendmail.cf is required is required for sendmail 8.9.1; here's the
correct ownership and permissions from invent3k:

INVENT3K:/SYS/PUB$ ll /etc/sendmail.cf
-rw-r--r--   1 MGR.SENDMAIL      SENDMAIL   28075 Apr 26 16:21 /etc/sendmail.cf

Sendmail 8.12.0 works much differently regarding initial submission of e-mail,
and uses the much better method of connecting to localhost port 25 and doing
normal SMTP to submit the message.  Also a different config file is used --
submit.cf.  But the user doesn't have to make any changes in the way sendmail
is called.

- Mark B.

Tom Emerson wrote:
>
> OK, I must be tripping up over something trivial, but it seems "ordinary"
> users cannot run sendmail to send e-mails from jobs...
>
> I have a command file that takes various parameters, one of which is a file
> to send as the "body" of the e-mail.  The command file builds up the
> appropriate headers, appends the "body" file, then issues the command:
>
>    run sendmail.pub.sendmail;info='-t';stdin=!WORKFILE
>
> (workfile is basically "/tmp/mailbag.!hppid")
>
> This command works fine if the sender has capabilities (via god), but
> silently fails if they are a generic "user" of the system -- could it be
> something goofy like not being able to read /etc/sendmail.cf as a "normal"
> user?  If so, how should the sendmail.cf file be "secured"?


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