The answer is you don't have to run the sendmail daemons to send mail out from the system. Your submit.cf file in /etc/mail needs to contain the location of the "Smart" relay host (not the localhost) and then you can send mail out. Thanks to all the replies!! Below is my original question I'm on a Solaris 9 box where sendmail is not running. I'm trying to send mail out as user oracle but get this error and the message never arrives do I need to be running sendmail daemons to send mail out as non root user for this to work? #/oracle % which mail /bin/mail #:/oracle % /bin/mail martini1@llnl.gov testing . can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue/): Permission denied Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser. #:/oracle % My permissions look like this #:/oracle % ls -la /var/spool total 25 drwxr-xr-x 13 root bin 512 Sep 2 2004 . drwxr-xr-x 36 root sys 1024 Sep 3 2004 .. drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 512 Aug 22 10:16 clientmqueue drwxr-xr-x 4 root sys 512 Aug 31 2004 cron drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 512 Sep 21 2004 locks drwxrwxr-x 5 lp lp 512 Aug 31 2004 lp dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Jan 27 16:17 mail drwxr-x--- 2 root bin 512 Feb 9 09:10 mqueue drwxrwxrwt 2 root bin 512 Aug 31 2004 pkg drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 512 Jan 13 14:12 print drwxrwxrwt 2 root bin 512 Sep 1 2004 samba drwxr-xr-x 5 uucp uucp 512 Sep 1 2004 uucp drwxrwxrwt 2 uucp uucp 512 Sep 1 2004 uucppublic I also tried using /usr/ucb/mail and get the same error above. Thank You. Dave Martini LLNL _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Feb 17 17:11:48 2006
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