Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:55:21 -0500 From: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> Cc: "William S. Duncanson" <caesar@starkreality.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail is broken Message-ID: <39FDA7F9.38AB2106@thehousleys.net> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20001030104059.0454e698@maggie.netspend.net> <20001030195038.A23861@atom.ru>
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"Alexandr A. Listopad" wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:48:08AM -0600, William S. Duncanson wrote:
> > As of sometime over the weekend, mail.local is no longer installed
> > setuid. This is a problem, because it can no longer flock() mailboxes to
> > deliver mail locally. Right now, I've chmod'ed mail.local, and mail is
> > flowing again. src/contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES indicates that, indeed,
> > mail.local should not be setuid, but doesn't indicate what should be done
> > to fix the problem "fire mail.local: lockmailbox /var/mail/caesar failed;
> > error code 75". Neither is it mentioned in src/UPDATING.
> >
> > Obviously, the solution is not to turn on the setuid bit for mail.local,
> > but something else that I'm completely missing. Any ideas?
>
> read carefully this mailing list!
>
> you need to read RELNOTES.TXT
>
This was sent to THIS mailing list on Oct. 19th:
The following changes have been MFC'ed from -CURRENT to -STABLE:
1. mail.local(8) is no longer installed as a set-user-id binary.
If you are using a /etc/mail/sendmail.cf from the default sendmail.cf
included with FreeBSD any time after 3.1.0, you are fine. If you are
using a hand-configured sendmail.cf and mail.local for delivery,
check
to make sure the F=S flag is set on the Mlocal line. Those with .mc
files who need to add the flag can do so by adding the following line
to
their your .mc file and regenerating the sendmail.cf file:
MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `+S')dnl
Note that FEATURE(`local_lmtp') already does this.
2. The default /etc/mail/sendmail.cf disables the SMTP EXPN and VRFY
commands.
3. Now using sendmail's version of vacation(1).
This change should be transparent except for the new options/features
available.
4. The sendmail cf building tools (contrib/sendmail/cf) are installed in
/usr/share/sendmail/cf.
More work still to come on this.
Jim
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