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I keep getting the error message that “hermes does not have write permission” with bounced mail. How do I stop this?

April 26, 2017bounced Error mail message

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I keep getting the error message that “hermes does not have write permission” with bounced mail. How do I stop this?

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Make certain that hermes is listed as a trusted user in sendmail.cf. Your /etc/aliases file should look something like this… # Alias for mailer daemon MAILER-DAEMON:root bob@myserver.mydomain.com root:bob@myserver.mydomain.com # Following alias is required by the new mail protocol, RFC 822 postmaster: bob@myserver.mydomain.com # Aliases to handle mail to msgs and news nobody: /dev/null After you make these changes to /etc/alaises run the following command. sendmail -bi . ..where bob@myserver.mydomain.com is the email address that you want all mail to root and postmaster to be routed to. This needs to be an account where mail will be frequently checked and not on the firewall.