On 28 Feb 97 at 16:01, CF Inacio wrote:
> 2- I create the user majordomo:
> username: majordomo
> UID: 75
> Group: Daemon
> Home directory: /usr/lib/majordomo
> Then when I mail majordomo from www, the user www receives no answer:
[snip]
> On the other hand, majordomo receives the mail.
Jason pointed out the problem with your Perl version, but I'm going
to posit a simpler solution, although one which may just be a flaw
with the way you described your setup. If you create a user called
"majordomo", mail to majordomo@host is by default just going to be
dropped in /var/mail/majordomo or whatever the mail files are on your
machine (or at least that's a logical default action- your OS may
differ). That would account for the mail being received (I
presume you mean not bounced), yet no response being sent. What
makes majordomo work is having the mail piped into the actual
program, usually through a mail alias.
On my machine (not the account from which I'm sending this message),
we have a user called majordom who actually owns the files and
directories. We also have a mail alias majordomo which pipes to the
actual scripts, and actually does the work. So mail to majordom@host
(which in your example would be majordomo@host) would normally just
get dumped in a UNIX mail file; as it turns out, we forward that mail
to majordomo-owner to deal with.
This could of course be absolutely wrong, and if so, I'll go back to
lurking on majordomo-workers. But then again, it might just be
correct. :) [Jason, Dave, and all the other true "mj-workers", feel
free to correct anything I said.]
-Russell
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