[Mailman-Users] sendmail bounces

[Jim Tittsler]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:08:11AM +0800, David Cake wrote:
> 	OK, sendmail is bouncing with
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post listname"
>     (expanded from: <listname at difference.com.au>)

This is trying to invoke the (2.1.x) program called mailman.

>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 550 5.7.1 "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post vampire"... Cannot 
> mail directly to programs
[...]
> - and /etc/mail/smrsh does definitely contain a link to the appropriate file
> legba:/etc/mail# ls -l smrsh/
> total 0
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 26 Sep  5  2002 mail.local -> 
> /usr/lib/sm.bin/mail.locallrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 29 Sep 26  2003 
> mailman -> /var/lib/mailman/mail/mailmanlrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 17 
> Sep 15  2002 procmail -> /usr/bin/procmail
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 17 Sep  5  2002 vacation -> /usr/bin/vacation
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 29 Sep 15  2002 wrapper -> 
> /usr/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper

This list of smrsh approved programs includes the old 'wrapper'
program, but doesn't appear to mention the 'mailman' program.
It looks like you are missing a symbolic link from
/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman to /etc/smrsh/mailman

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