[Mailman-Users] Sendmail: Cannot mail directly to programs

[Jon Carnes]

What OS are running on?  If Linux, what distribution and version number?

If Red Hat then you are using smrsh and you need to setup wrapper so
that it is defined/allowed by smrsh:
  su root
  cd /etc/smrsh
  ln -s ~mailman/mail/wrapper wrapper

done!

Also, check out the Mailman FAQ, entry 3.14:
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.014.htp

I've tried to compile in one spot all the various problems/solutions for
Mail not going out to the list - at least the solutions that have come
across the list in the past two months.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes
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On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 05:58, David Gordon wrote:
> I've now got the Mailman web interface up and working for my first list.
> However sending a message to test-request at mydomain1.tld (to get help)
> results in the following mail error
> 
> >Recipient "test-request at mydomain1.tld refused
> >on "smtp.mydomain1.tld"
> >5.7.1 <test-request at mydomain1.tld> ... Cannot
> >mail directly to programs
> 
> According to the Sendmail FAQs at <http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html>
> 
> Q3.11 -- Why can't my users forward their mail to a program?
> 
> " If you are willing to let users run programs from their .forward file
> even though they cannot telnet or rsh in (as might be reasonable if you
> run smrsh to control the list of programs they can run) then add the line:
> 
> /SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/
> 
> to /etc/shells. "
> 
> Er, can I/should I do that then? Or is there another/better/safer/correct
> way to do this?
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> DG
> 
> 
> 
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