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Subject: Re: aliasing/forwarding loop broken
From: nfeasey @ utpress . utoronto . ca
Organization: University of Toronto Press
Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 11:25:50 +0100
To: Kevin Turnquist <tservo @ mail . portup . com>, majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <199705060422.AAA01004@portage1.portup.com>

Kevin Turnquist wrote:
> 
>    I'm new to setting up majordomo, and I've run into the following
> error.  I can subscribe to a list, but when I try to send a message to
> the list, I get a message back (Sendmail Returned Mail) with the following:
> 
> aliasing/forwarding loop broken
> 
>    Is there something obvious I'm missing?  Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> --
>    Kevin Turnquist aka tservo@portup.com (http://www.portup.com/~tservo)
>          System Administrator, The Portage || Proud Member of JSAS
>    "Nobody glorifies criminal conduct like the Americans do." - Bret Hart
>                   Finger tservo@portup.com for PGP Public Key

You probably just have a security issue.  When you installed majordomo it
wanted a userid and groupid to install to - which you have probably done.  You
can probably subscribe/unsubscribe with no problems.  However, when a message
is sent to the list it is handed over to the mail system.  The mail system
needs to have access to the majodomo lists area or it won't be able to send messages.

In my case sendmail was running as user mail, group mail.  So what I did was
make majordomo a member of the same group as sendmail and then change all my
group permissions.  Once sendmail has access it will magically start sending
the messages for you.



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