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sendmail problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher A Mceniry)
Thu Feb 25 20:28:53 1999
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Cc: cmceniry@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:29:39 EST
From: Christopher A Mceniry <cmceniry@MIT.EDU>
After bringing my aliases files from my 4.2 installation to the 5.2
installation, I ran into a couple of problems with sendmail. Mainly,
the prog delivery agent was set up differently in two ways: aliases to
|prog needs to be |prog@localhost in 5.2(|prog actually gets sent to
|prog@mit.edu - I'm not sure why it slips by); 5.2 uses just sh, not
smrsh.
After playing around with it for a little while, I made the following
mods to sendmail.cf. This was done from an installation done on 2/20
so it was using (what I think is) the most recent sendmail package.
What it does(or what it is supposed to do):
1.) Receives mail to foo@machine.mit.edu iff foo is in /etc/aliases or
/etc/localusers. All other mail to foo@machine.mit.edu is bounced
as "Local user does not exist".
2.) Allows for |prog to be an alias instead of |prog@localhost(was
like this in 4.2).
3.) Mprog uses the smrsh, instead of sh.
4.) Adds the privacy options(my own preference, just got caught in the
diff).
********************** sendmail.cf.patch ****************************
97a98,99
> # disable EXPN command
> O PrivacyOptions="noexpn,novrfy,authwarnings"
193a196,197
> # Error out on anyone who is not in localusers or aliases
> R$~E<@$j>$* $#error $@ 5.1.1 $: Local user does not exist
247a252,253
> # Catch delivery via programs before send them off to athena
> R|$+ $@ $#local $: |$1 prog mda
262c268,271
< Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMeu, S=10, R=20, A=sh -c $u
---
> Mprog, P=/usr/sbin/smrsh, F=lsDFMoqeu9|, S=10/30, R=20/40, D=$z:/,
> T=X-Unix,
> A=sh -c $u
> #Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMeu, S=10, R=20, A=sh -c $u
********************** sendmail.cf.patch ****************************
Comments,questions?
--chris
