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sendmail queuename errors

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered J Floyd)
Wed Nov 1 13:02:37 1995

Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 13:02:20 -0500
From: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU


When I login on a NetBSD machine I get the following in my console:
12:56 queuename: Cannot create "qfMAA24139" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=10181): Permission denied
12:56 Nov  1 12:56:12 lola-granola sendmail[24139]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(jered): queuename: Cannot create "qfMAA24139" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=10181): Permission denied

Presumably, this is being cause by a line in my dotfiles that essentially does:
echo "foo" | pmail jered -s "bar"

However, this works fine after I have logged in, and also works fine from 
my dotfiles on all other platforms I have tried.

--Jered

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