Marius Schamschula wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> Thanks for the hints.
Your welcome. :)
>
> On Sunday, November 2, 2003, at 05:22 PM, Daniel Liston wrote:
[snip]
> The above would imply that you have users in /etc/passwd that
> match the addresses being verified, *and* the /etc/alises file
> is being ignored.
>
>
> Indeed, the AliasFile sendmail directive had been commented out in
> sendmail.cf.
This used to default to /etc/aliases when not defined specifically.
I wonder when this changed.
>
> I now get mostly expected results. However, when I first tried
> physics-list I got
>
> bash-2.05a# sendmail -bv physics-list@physics.aamu.edu
> :include:/usr/local/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/physics... Cannot open
> /usr/local/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/physics: Group writable file
The listname files in your "lists" directory should have 640 or
644 permissions. The listname.config files can be 660.
>
> I then changed the group write permissions. Now I get
>
> bash-2.05a# sendmail -bv physics-list@physics.aamu.edu
> aliasing/forwarding loop broken
You did not mention what you changed the permissions to.
[snip]
> The above is ok, but you are risking sendmail advertising your
> physics-list address in the message headers.
>
>
> How do I fix this?
Assuming you have a "nobody" alias that expands to
/dev/null, you can add the nobody target to your
listname alias like this;
test: "|/path-to/majordomo/wrapper resend -l test test-list,nobody"
[snip]
> 220 xenon.physics.aamu.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.9/8.12.6; Mon, 3 Nov 2003
> 08:43:44 -0600 (CST)
>
> Once I get Mac OS X 10.3 Server, I'll get to do this all over again.
> 10.3 uses Postfix.
It does not have to use postfix, but you may want to anyway.
Which MTA you use, regardless of which one is installed by
default, is completely up to you, the administrator.
Dan Liston
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