Non-root users recieve a "collect: Cannot write" error when sending mail

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Issue

Normal users can't send mail via sendmail but root user can send mails.

mail -v user@domain.com < t1.txt

collect: Cannot write ./dfpABHhoMu026994 (bfcommit, uid=606, gid=51): Permission denied
queueup: cannot create queue file ./qfpABHhoMu026994, euid=606, fd=-1, fp=0x0: Permission denied

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7

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