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Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes:

> Well, suddenly I have a need to understand how mail is sent from
> XEmacs. The reason is that suddenly I can't do it. Whether I use
> Gnus' mailer or XEmacs', when I send a message I get

> Jun 25 18:29:44 mharnois sendmail[235]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(mharnois): cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied

> However, this doesn't happen if I use a command-line mailer. So I'm
> confused as hell and I have no idea what I might have done to cause
> this.

You probably messed something up when upgrading to 8.8.6 (forgetting
to add the setuid bits could cause the error you see).  The command
line mailer doesn't call sendmail and XEmacs does.
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