Re: Slight hole in the way Majordomo handles email.

[frank () kent ansto gov au (Frank Crawford)]

I'm not sure that majordomo is the problem here.  Didn't Marcus admit to
hitting the wrong button?

Anywy, this is close but not quite the correct solution as when Majordomo runs
it does so as a different, non-priviledged (sp?) user, and so sendmail won't
accept certain options.

On Aug 14,  5:33pm, Matt Carothers wrote:
> Subject: Re: Slight hole in the way Majordomo handles email.
> Off topic, but interesting nonetheless.  How about this:
>
> 1. Move the *-outgoing aliases out to a new file.
> 2. Make a second sendmail.cf with the new file as an additional AliasFile and
>    an alternate QueueDirectory writeable by the majordomo user (because
>    sendmail won't run as root with -C).
> 3. Add "-C/path/to/new/sendmail.cf" to $sendmail_command in majordomo.cf
>
> This way sendmail only knows about the listname-outgoing aliases when
majordomo
> runs it.

The way recommended in the documentation is to have separate alias files, but
that the one run at boot is only given a partial list, i.e. doesn't include the
outgoing list aliases.  I'm sure I've seen it mentioned in the Majordomo
documentation somewhere, and will dig up the full details, if needed.

> - Matt
                                                                        Frank


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