Re: majordomo, sendmail 8.12, and aliases issues

> Rob Mangiafico wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Chip Old wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:38 -0500, Rob Mangiafico wrote to 
> majordomo-users@gr...:
> > 
> > > We have been running majordomo 1.94.5 successfully for a 
> long time using 
> > > sendmail 8.11.x. We recently switched to 8.12.11, and now 
> are having an 
> > > issue with alias list expansion.
> > >
> > > listname: "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l 
> listname listname-out"
> > > listname-out: :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/listname
> > >
> > > When an email is sent to the list, sendmail tries to 
> deliver the email to:
> > > [email protected]
> > >

I'm running much the same setup (sendmail 8.12.8-9.80, majordomo 1.94.5)
but I've not seen this behavor.

> > > instead of parsing the include list for sending to the 
> subscribers. It
> > > seems the MSP/MSA portion with submit.cf is causing the 
> problem. We can
> > > work around it by changing the $mailer command in 
> majordomo.cf by adding:
> > > -Am -OQueueDirectory=/usr/local/majordomo/queue
> > >

What is in your submit.mc? 

> > > to force sendmail.cf local delivery and setting a queue 
> that majordomo has
> > > write permission on. However, I would think the system 
> should work without
> > > having to go this route. Any ideas? Running RHEL 3 with 
> default sendmail
> > > configuration, and standard majordomo 1.94.5.
> > >

That might be the problem, I seem to remember that the default
sendmail.mc used to make the sendmail.cf when I first set the box up
that has majordomo on it was less than optimal. What is in your
sendmail.mc? Do you have the 8.11 sendmail.mc that was used to make the
previous sendmail.cf to compare?

> > > If the -Am method is the only way to make it work, are 
> there any drawbacks
> > > or problems with using this method?
> > 

Not sure, I've never used that.

> 
> Anything else we can check? Or are we limited to -Am and a 
> separate mail 
> queue...
> 
> Rob
> 

If your using 8.12 is smrsh configured? If so did you replace the
wrapper link in /etc/smrsh to point it to the majodomo wrapper? Not sure
that would cause the odd mailing, it's been a long time since I had to
set up majordomo. :)

Paul Pettit
CTO and IS Manager
Consistent Computer Bargains Inc.

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