[Mailman-Users] Sendmail on Solaris 8

[Scott Anderson]

Why can't you create a link to /usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper
  in /var/adm/sm.bin?

Jerome Warnier wrote:

> Sendmail in Solaris 8 uses "smrsh" to check mail wrappers.
> The problem is that it needs the wrapper (or a link to) to be 
> in /var/adm/sm.bin.
> Mailman 2.0.7 provides a directory "mail" (under EXEC_PREFIX) to tell were to 
> find this wrapper.
> The problem is that Sendmail doesn't like that and insist to use only what is 
> in /var/adm/sm.bin.
> I would like not to have to modify the lines printed by "newlist" to 
> match /var/adm/sm.bin/wrapper instead of /usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper
> I can only (rather badly, I think) replace the line in mm_cfg.py:
> WRAPPER_DIR     = os.path.join(EXEC_PREFIX, 'mail')
> with 
> WRAPPER_DIR     = '/var/adm/sm.bin'
> 
> Maybe am I wrong?
> Is there a better way to do this?
> Wouldn't it be possible to make it better in Mailman 2.0.8 or 2.1?
> 
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