>I've just build sendmail 8.12.1 from sources downloaded from sendmail.org, 
>and installed on my brand new NetBSD 1.5.2 server.  Incoming mail appears 
>to be working fine, but when I try to send mail from my machine (using
>pine), I get the error message:
>
>Nov 25 14:54:37 ozeki
>sendmail[10878]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(dmelton): drop_privileges: setgid(25) 
>failed: Operation not permitted
>
>I've followed the recommended approach, and am trying to run sendmail
>as user smmsp, rather than root.
>
>Wondering if anyone else has encountered (and solved) this problem?
>As I interpret the sendmail docs (like
>http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/sm-812.html), it sounds like some
>of the setgid issues can be OS related.  Does NetBSD require that
>sendmail be run suid root?  This is a bit of a security compromise, 
>so I only want to do it if it's necessary.

on that very web page, there's a link to

	http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/patches/setgid.p1

which should take care of exactly this issue.  8.12.2 ought to be much
better in this regard.  :)

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