Apache gets sendmail permission denied in selinux

From http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=446074.0

Hi everyone,
  when installing SMF 2.0 on RHEL6 recently, I found that emails were not being sent, with the error

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sendmail: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied

showing up in /var/log/httpd/error_log.  This was caused by the apache user not having SELinux permission to send email. This could also occur on other distributions which use SELinux (particularly Fedora and CentOS, but possibly others as well), if it is set to "Enforcing".

You can check this by using

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/usr/sbin/getsebool httpd_can_sendmail

which will report

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httpd_can_sendmail --> {on|off}

and if it is off, you can turn it on using

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sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail 1

with the "-P" for persistent (across reboots).


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