Re: [Mailman-Users] sendmail shell not available for mailman

well duh! didn't see the readme folks. sorry. for any other newbie with this problem

from the SENDMAIL.README

Many newer versions of Sendmail come with a restricted execution
utility called "smrsh", which limits the executables that Sendmail
will allow to be used as mail filter programs.  You need to
explicitly allow Mailman's wrapper program to be used with smrsh
before it will work.  If mail is not getting delivered to
Mailman's wrapper program and you're getting an "operating system
error" in your mail syslog, this could be your problem.

One good way of doing this is to:

    - cd into /etc/smrsh (or where ever it happens to reside on
      your system, such as /var/smrsh or /usr/local/smrsh).

    - create a symbolic link to Mailman's wrapper program

For example, if you've installed Mailman in the standard location,
you can just execute these commands (you might have to do these as
root):

    % cd /etc/smrsh
    % ln -s /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman mailman

----- Original Message ----- Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:29 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] sendmail shell not available for mailman

I get about the same problem running redhat 7.2 sendmail 8.11.6 with mailman.b21

smrsh: mailman not available for sendmail programs 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

has anyone solved this?