On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:38 -0500, Rob Mangiafico wrote to majordomo-users@gr...:
> We have been running majordomo 1.94.5 successfully for a long time using
> sendmail 8.11.x. We recently switched to 8.12.11, and now are having an
> issue with alias list expansion.
>
> listname: "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l listname listname-out"
> listname-out: :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/listname
>
> When an email is sent to the list, sendmail tries to deliver the email to:
> listname-out@server.name
>
> instead of parsing the include list for sending to the subscribers. It
> seems the MSP/MSA portion with submit.cf is causing the problem. We can
> work around it by changing the $mailer command in majordomo.cf by adding:
> -Am -OQueueDirectory=/usr/local/majordomo/queue
>
> to force sendmail.cf local delivery and setting a queue that majordomo has
> write permission on. However, I would think the system should work without
> having to go this route. Any ideas? Running RHEL 3 with default sendmail
> configuration, and standard majordomo 1.94.5.
>
> If the -Am method is the only way to make it work, are there any drawbacks
> or problems with using this method?
Sendmail 8.12.11 is pretty old. Why not 8.13.3, the current version? Not
that it has anything to do with the problem, but I'm curious.
We switched from 8.11.x to 8.12.x so long ago I don't remember all the
details, but I do remember that there were two submit.cf issues related to
Majordomo:
1) The standard build of submit.cf didn't tell Sendmail in MSA mode to use
the trusted-users file, so the MSA didn't recognize the Majordomo user
(majordom in our case) as a trusted user. I had to add this to submit.mc:
FEATURE(`use_ct_file')dnl
2) The standard build of submit.cf didn't include a define for ALIAS_FILE.
That might not matter if you have a single aliases file including
Majordomo aliases as well as all your system and user aliases, but it
breaks Majordomo if you use a separate file for Majordomo aliases like we
do. I had to add this to submit.mc:
define(`ALIAS_FILE',
``/etc/mail/aliases,/usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.aliases'')dnl
Of course in the actual submit.mc that is all one line. After adding
those two lines to submit.mc, do "./Build submit.cf" to get a new
submit.cf.
I seem to remember some permissions issues too, caused by the fact that
Sendmail has become progressively stricter about permissions, but I don't
remember the details.
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