Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:06:09 -0700 (PDT) From: L Goodwin <xrayv19@yahoo.com> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Subject: Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only Message-ID: <674390.32697.qm@web58110.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070901011832.4366B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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--- Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:14:55 -0700 (PDT) L Goodwin
> <xrayv19@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > --- Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
> wrote:
>
> [ slashing mercilessly ]
>
> > > >--- Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
> [..]
> > > > > Although, it is entirely reasonable to
> consider
> > > > > using Postfix instead.
>
> > > Here is a sample script that you can use as a
> > > template:
> >
>
=======================================================
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > >
> > > #define any commands you will use
> > > MAILFILE=mymailfile
> > > MAILFILE2=mymailfile2
> > > SENDTO=derek@computinginnovations.com
> > > CCTO=derek@computinginnovations.com
> > > MAIL=/usr/bin/mail
> > > AWK=/usr/bin/awk
> > > CAT=/bin/cat
> > > TR=/usr/bin/tr
> > > TEMPDIR=/tmp
> > >
> > > #make sure we have paths
> > > export
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
> > >
> > > cd $TEMPDIR
> > > $CAT /etc/passwd | $AWK -F : '{ print $5 }' >
> > > $MAILFILE
> > > $TR -cd "\012-\172" < $MAILFILE > $MAILFILE2
> > > $MAIL -s "My list of real user names subject"
> > > $SENDTO -c $CCTO < $MAILFILE2
> >
>
=======================================================
> >
> > Derek, your example brings up another question.
> >
> > Should I be calling "mail" or "sendmail", and
> which
> > mail or sendmail should I invoke if there is more
> than
> > one of either? Chuck's example calls sendmail in
> a
> > path that does not exist on my system (my
> sendmail is
> > in /usr/sbin/). I usually invoke whichever one is
> > first in my path.
>
> Use whatever works for you, and it never hurts to be
> specific :)
>
> > One more question. Is it ok to run the script
> (and
> > send the email) as user root, or should I create
> a
> > user account with more limited permissions -- if
> so,
> > what limits should I set?
>
> There are so many ways of doing this .. here's
> another that we'd use to
> mail out accounts to members monthly, from text
> files generated by some
> php and mysql magic on another box, by another guy.
>
> Note that this is enforced to be run by user 'subs'
> (here uid 996), so
> that's who these messages are 'From:'. A script run
> from cron need not
> be so paranoid about checking things .. this was
> hand-run 'when ready'.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # sendacts 7Jan00 smithi .. mail out SubsBot
> messages .. cleanup 2Oct02
> # each *.act file begins with To:, Cc:, X-mailer:
> etc lines
>
> maildir="/home/subs/bills/$1" # preexisting dir as
> parameter eg '2000-01'
> mailrun="./command.txt" # perline format:
> 'sendmail -t < userX.act 2>&1'
>
> if [ "`id -u`" != "996" ]; then
> echo "$0 must be run as user subs .. 'su subs'
> and retry .."
> elif [ "$1" = "" ]; then
> echo "usage: $0 directory"
> elif [ ! -d $maildir ]; then
> echo "$maildir does not exist .. mkdir first,
> unpack zipfile there"
> elif [ ! -w $maildir ]; then
> echo "$maildir is not writeable .. an older
> locked one, perhaps?"
> else
> cd $maildir
> if [ ! -f $mailrun ]; then
> echo "can't find ${maildir}/${mailrun} ..
> zipfile not unpacked?"
> elif [ -f ./mailout.done ]; then
> echo "'rm ${maildir}/mailout.done' if you
> wanna repeat mailout?"
> else
> umask 27
> echo "$0 sending mail:" ; cat $mailrun
> . $mailrun
> touch ./mailout.done ; echo "$0 done"
> exit 0
> fi
> fi
> exit 1
>
> with ./command.txt containing a line per recipient
> such as:
>
> sendmail -t < user1.act 2>&1
> sendmail -t < user2.act 2>&1
> [..]
> sendmail -t < userN.act 2>&1
>
> and with the *.act files beginning such as:
>
> To: smithi@nimnet.asn.au
> Subject: August 2006 Account for Ian Smith
> Cc: subs@nimnet.asn.au
> Reply-to: subs@nimnet.asn.au
> X-Mailer: subsbot v0.9 beta 8.90 :)
>
> Hello Ian Smith,
> [..]
>
> HTH, Ian
>
Thanks for sharing your example, Ian.
They all help!
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