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Date:      Sun, 10 Jan 1999 06:51:05 +1100
From:      Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
To:        Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        holland@i-p-d.nl, jwenger@ac-ent.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Majordomo
Message-ID:  <19990110065105.30234@welearn.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3697B08E.7CB5857C@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 07:39:58PM %2B0000
References:  <000101be3bd4$b08982a0$4500a8c0@slopoke.scum.com> <199901091507.QAA07952@ns.i-p-d.nl> <19990110061115.49826@welearn.com.au> <3697B08E.7CB5857C@tdx.co.uk>

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On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 07:39:58PM +0000, Karl Pielorz wrote:
> 
> 
> Sue Blake wrote:
> 
> > And also with sendmail 8.9.x you'll need to remove the group-write bit
> > on the /usr/local/majordomo/lists directory if you haven't done so
> > already. If you need ordinary users to access that directory check the
> > Majordomo FAQ for alternatives. If you don't make this change,
> > majordomo will misbehave unpredictably with the newer sendmails.
> 
> Hmmm... Are you sure you don't mean _sendmail_ will refuse to process the
> aliases with "Warning file xxxxx is insecure" or similar? Rather than
> Majordomo?

No, no, sorry, this is not in any way to do with aliases, it's just an
extra caution for people running recent versions of sendmail (as the
original poster indicated in the other part I had quoted). It's a
problem which I've seen people go through hell trying to track down.

Still, you'd expect a sensible error message like that for this problem
too, wouldn't you. Doesn't happen. I had something strange like
majordomo appeared to function correctly, made its little archives and
so on, but the subscribers never actually received their copies. No
errors, no complaints, sneaky little bugger it was. But other
majordomo users reported different types of strange behaviour, never
obvious where the real problem might be, and much of the symptoms
downright misleading.

-- 

Regards,
        -*Sue*-


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