SUMMARY: Should sendmail be running to send mail out?

From: Dave Martini <martini_at_mrpeabody.llnl.gov>
Date: Fri Feb 17 2006 - 17:11:21 EST
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
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