Re: {bb} E-mail Acknowledgements with .forward

[Jeff Stoner <leapfrog@freeshell.org>]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Shane Presley wrote:

> Currently sendmail.

I don't remember the default RedHat sendmail set up. You may need to check 
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc for
FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl

As well as make sure it exists and has proper permissions. An alternative 
is to use procmail, which needs sendmail.mc settings
define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail,`',`procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl

and possibly some other stuff (I've been using postfix on my test box for 
a while now.)

If those settings aren't present or need changed to proper values, you'll 
have to rebuild your sendmail.cf using the m4 macro package.

> According to the comments in bb-mailack.sh, there are some special
> considerations using sendmail.  I followed part of those instructions.
> I created a link in /etc/smrsh to point to the script.

smrsh is to sendmail like suexec is to Apache. I don't think symbolic 
links work - copy the script in /etc/smrsh

> So my .forward file actually points to /etc/smrsh/bb-mailack.sh.  That
> file has execute permissions.  But it still doesn't seem to be getting
> called.  The comments also mention that you may need to use an alias
> file.  Not sure how to create or user an alias in sendmail?

aliases in sendmail are defined in the /etc/aliases file (man aliases). 
Depending on your version of sendmail, it may or may not auto-rebuild the 
aliases database. I just manually rebuilt it whenever I make changes 
(newaliases).

> Also no clue if I need procmail?  And if I do, I wouldnt know how to use it :-)

procmail gives you a lot more mail processing power. You shouldn't need it 
but it can be a handy tool for doing other things via mail.

--Jeff

"Why are computers still made with 1.44 mb floppy drives???"

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