From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jan 9 13:15:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14826 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:15:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14818 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:15:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA00652; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 21:14:58 GMT Message-ID: <3697C6A3.E0AF732B@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 21:14:11 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake CC: holland@i-p-d.nl, jwenger@ac-ent.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Majordomo References: <000101be3bd4$b08982a0$4500a8c0@slopoke.scum.com> <199901091507.QAA07952@ns.i-p-d.nl> <19990110061115.49826@welearn.com.au> <3697B08E.7CB5857C@tdx.co.uk> <19990110065105.30234@welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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. Well, when it happened to us - Sendmail used to complain bitterly when you started it up, having said that - all the above is valid - and even better it's now in the searchable archives so others can find it when needed ... -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message