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when I cd to the path /usr/sbin/ I have got the below

sendmail -> /etc/alternatives/mta

Hi,

That's fine, don't worry about any of that. In your script, instead of just putting sendmail, put /usr/sbin/sendmail instead, and see if it works.

when I cd to the path /usr/sbin/ I got

sendmail -> /etc/alternatives/mta is this a file??

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Oh okay I will try again

Hi,

It's a symbolic link - not a file itself, but a pointer to somewhere else. Entirely normal, and the way that Red Hat do things as part of their alternatives system.

Now, please just try typing /usr/sbin/sendmail in your command or script or whatever it is you're doing. You should find it works, where typing sendmail on its own doesn't. This is because /usr/sbin (the directory in which this link lives) is not in your path, as you saw previously.

I tried now.

Code:

[hyperion@vdcalq04108 /]$ usr/sbin/sendmail -s "test" devipriya.challa@ge.com
WARNING: RunAsUser for MSP ignored, check group ids (egid=10, want=51)
can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.
[hyperion@vdcalq04108 /]$

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Hi,

I'm starting to get the feeling there's some very unusual things about the way your system is set up. Is it a full, complete and otherwise normal install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or one of its derivatives (e.g. CentOS, Scientific Linux, etc) ? If this has been installed in a non-standard way or otherwise customised heavily, or if you're running in a chroot'd environment or some other kind of cut-down system, it would be handy to know that.

In any case, this error points to a potential permissions problem with the Sendmail binary itself, which shouldn't really happen in a normal out-of-the-box Red Hat system. Could you let us know what you get as the output of ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail, please ?

server is Liniux RHEL 6.5 version. this is new server which I am trying to send email. And I am running this with a functional ID.

I tried the command which you suggested got

Code:

[hyperion@vdcalq04108 mail]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
-rwxr-sr-x. 1 root smmsp 833512 Jun 17  2010 /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail

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