H:From owner-majordomo-users-outgoing@GreatCircle.COM Mon Jun 2 14:43:26 1997
H:Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 16:00:10 +0100
H:From: youngpk@info.bt.co.uk (Pete Young)
H:To: majordomo-users@greatcircle.com
H:Subject: Solaris sendmail writing to pipes
H:Content-MD5: Y4G1Rl1NkoClqoWA3z5yCg==
H:
H:Dear all,
H:
H:Last time we looked at majordomo on Solaris 2.5 there were some problems
H:with the Sun version of /usr/lib/sendmail writing to pipes. I forget
H:the exact detail but it was sufficient to discourage majordomo from
H:working reliably.
H:
H:The SunOS box we're using for majordomo is on it's last legs and I
H:need to both upgrade from 1.93 and move onto an Ultra running Solaris 2.5.1.
H:
H:Can someone tell me whether this problem with sendmail has now been resolved,
H:and if so which version of sendmail I should be running ?
H:
H:My apologies if the answer to this is well-known. I couln't find it in
H:the FAQ.
H:
H:Kind regards
H:
H:Pete
H:
H: ____________________________________________________________________
H: Pete Young pete.young@bt-sys.bt.co.uk Phone +44 1473 605525
H: "Just another crouton, floating on the bouillabaisse of life"
H:
the "problem" was that, for security reasons, Sun decided to totally
disallow the specification of pipes in /etc/sendmail.cf and
/etc/aliases (and in .forward files??).
However, if you use procmail as the local delivery agent, it will happily
route mail into pipes.
I use Majordomo and MHonArc (the Mail-to-HTML conversion tool) and I found
that the only way I could accomplish routing mail from majordomo to mhonarc
was to (1) make my majordomo "owner" be a subscriber to the lists I wanted
to reflect, and (2) use procmail to route the mail that came to the
majordomo "owner" into mhonarc.
<signed>
Howard S. Modell
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