Solution: sieve with reject/redirect/vacation fails, sendmail exit 71

[Razmik Ghanaghounian]

Ken, I already checked that out and i have a line in my imapd.conf file 
which points to sendmail binary so that was'nt the problem. I found out 
later that i was getting cannot write to queue permission errors in my 
maillog . the 'cyrus' user was trying to write to 
/var/spool/clientmqueue (for submission to sendmail) and ofcourse that 
cant happen unless i made him member of 'smmsp' group and gave the group 
write permission.
Permission on /var/spool/clientmqueue before:
drwxr-x---    2 smmsp    smmsp        4096 Aug 29 09:39 clientmqueue
Permission after:
drwxrwx---    2 smmsp    smmsp        4096 Aug 29 09:39 clientmqueue 
(with cyrus member of smmsp)

sendmail version 8.13.4, cyrus: 2.2.12

If there is an alternative sol'n... please let me know. thanks.

Ken Murchison wrote:

> Razmik Ghanaghounian wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm getting the following in my /var/log/messages when i send an 
>> email to someone with sieve redirect or reject or vacation action...
>>
>> sieve runtime error for dad id 
>> <430F5861.5050709 at harbourfrontcentre.com>: reject: Sendmail process 
>> terminated normally, exit status 71
>>
>> I checked out exit 71 on sendmail <sysexits.h> which is:
>> #define EX_OSERR        71      /* system error (e.g., can't fork) */
>>
>> but this does'nt help much. Any other sieve script works fine (ie. 
>> discard,fileinto). It seems that any action that requires sendmail to 
>> send to the sender fails.
>
>
> This most likely means that Sieve can not find the sendmail binary to 
> execute.  If its not located at /usr/lib/sendmail, then set the 
> 'sendmail' option in imapd.conf.
>
>