[Mailman-Users] Sendmail 8.12.1 + MailMan

[Rich West]

Actually, I use /etc/mail/access rather heavily (see 
http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/spaminator as a rudimentary example to 
how much I use it.), and, although I tinkered around with it to get 
Mailman to work via SMTPDirect, it seemed to constantly ignore whatever 
I put in there regarding Mailman.  It is almost as if Mailman were 
re-writing the headers in such a way as to fool Sendmail into checking 
the _recipient_ of the email to see if they can relay through us..

Enough so as to make my brain hurt thinking about it.  I would be 
interested to see what others have done in their access file or sendmail 
config to make everything behave..

Oh, and, yes, Sendmail 8.12.x looks like a fantastic upgrade.  I have 
been running it on a development machine for a week and a half now 
(upgrading to 8.12.1 only last night) and the additional 
feature/configuration options regarding running under a separate user 
(other than root), and the differentiation between processes that handle 
the receiving of mail and the delivering of mail certainly adds to the 
security of the system.

:-)

Thanks!
-Rich


Jon Carnes wrote:

>On Thursday 04 October 2001 12:03, Rich West wrote:
>
>>This is going to sound stupid, but, with Sendmail's new MSP
>>configuration, I have been unable to get sendmail + MailMan to work
>>properly.  I feel like I am in a catch-22 here: o Configure Defaults.py
>>to use SMTPDirect, and sendmail starts seeing email from list (outgoing
>>to queue members) as being 'from' the list member, and, hence, sendmail
>>denies it because it looks like spam (aka: the sender is not a local
>>user) o Configure Defaults.py to use Sendmail, although non-secure, it
>>worked under 8.11.x without any hitches.  Now, using the MSP aspect of
>>the latest sendmail, I get:
>>
>I haven't up to the grade of 8.12 yet, but I hear folks are having a great 
>time and I should step up soon...  Have you looked at playing with the 
>/etc/mail/access file to allow relaying for your Mailman install?  In the 
>past that has allowed folks to open up relaying for a their installs. 
>
>Good Luck - Jon Carnes
>

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Richard West				mailto:richard.west at divatv.com
Sr. Systems Administrator
Diva - Princeton, NJ			http://www.divatv.com