[Mimedefang] mimedefang + majordomo

[Dustin Roberts]

Yes, thank you for your reply, it was permissions on the 
/var/spool/clientmqueue dir that was giving me fits.  I am kinda new to 
this whole sendmail 8.12 so i don't quite understand the complete 
reasons for the seperate smmsp sendmail daemon.
What I did to get this to work was recompile majordomo to run as smmsp. 
  This was the only way other than setting 777 that we could get list 
mail to send.

so what I have now is

/var/spool/clientmqueue		smmsp,smmsp, 770

and majordomo is running as smmsp,smmsp

is there any potential security risks that I should be worried about 
running as such?

Thanks for you help.  Its much apreciated.

Dustin

Matt Bruce wrote:
> Dustin,
> 
> 
>>Jan 15 16:34:40 owbn sendmail[8014]: dangerous permissions=40755 on 
>>queue directory /var/spool/clientmqueue/
> 
> ...
> 
>>Jan 15 16:34:40 owbn sendmail[8014]: h0FMYeKC008014:
> 
> SYSERR(majordomo): 
> 
>>queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfh0FMYeKC008014, uid=250: 
>>Permission denied
> 
> 
> Unless my brain is still asleep (I hate winter mornings), the
> permissions on your /var/spool/clientmqueue/ directory are causing the
> problem. You'll need to "chmod o-rx" it to remove other/world
> permissions from it to remove the warnings. 
> 
> It's my understanding that Sendmail isn't *letting* the queue temp file
> be written (rather than not being *able* to) for security reasons.
> Change the directory to 750 or 770 and restart your sendmail/mimedefang
> script, then Robert should be your mother's brother. ;)
> 
> Time for coffee...
> 
> Matt