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Sendmail daemon is spamming with these kind of messages:

Jul 7 18:00:00 localhost sendmail[9027]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(pgsql): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: Permission denied

Permissions of /etc/mail/sendmail.cf are:

[root@localhost ~]# ls -al /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 58285 Jan 4 2013 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

Permissions of /etc/mail directory are:

[root@localhost ~]# ls -al /etc/mail

total 504

drwxr-xr-- 2 root wheel 512 Jan 4 2013 .

In system there is pgsql user, so as I can guess, error SYSERR(pgsql) is about user pgsql that have no permissions to some directory or file.

I also tried to do grep pgsql /etc/mail/sendmail.cf to find if there is any line containing pgsql (to see if there are any permissions restrictions), but I didn't find anything.

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  • Are you using postgres to dynamically rewrite your sendmail.cf file somehow? We really need more information about your environment to help you.
    – Falcon Momot
    Jul 8, 2013 at 15:35

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For a directory, you need execute as well as read permission in order to see files within the directory. So change the permissions to be

drwxr-xr-x

for /etc/mail

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