[wellylug] Postfix user rights

[Daniel Pittman]

Edouard Chalaron <e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz> writes:

> I am pulling my hair on this one
>
> I have configured postfix and root is sending me lots of emails about
> cron etc ....
>
> Now I have a project management soft (streber-pm) in php.
> This is supposed to send me email notifications.
>
> Of course it does not,
> and the /var/log/mail.log says :
>
> Jul  2 09:16:38 mymachine postfix[24787]: error: to submit mail, use the
> Postfix sendmail command
> Jul  2 09:16:38 mymachine postfix[24787]: fatal: the postfix command is
> reserved for the superuser
>
> How can I get around this ?

Very simple: your "streber-pm" software is trying to use the 'postfix'
script to submit mail.  This is absolutely and totally wrong.

You need to reconfigure "streber-pm" and/or your PHP software to use the
Unix command /usr/sbin/sendmail to submit email, just like the error
messages there tell you.

Regards,
        Daniel
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