This is related to an issue with setting up Mailman also. Quoting from the docs :
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Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System
Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
SENDMAIL ISSUES
Many newer versions of Sendmail come with a restricted execution
utility called "smrsh", which limits the executables that sendmail can
use as mail filter programs. You need to explicitly allow Mailman's
wrapper program to be used with smrsh before it will work. If mail is
not getting delivered to Mailman's wrapper program and you're getting
an "operating system error" in your mail syslog, this could be your
problem.
One good way of doing this is to:
- cd into /etc/smrsh (or where ever it happens to reside on your
system, such as /var/smrsh or /usr/local/smrsh).
- create a symbolic link to Mailman's wrapper program
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I hope this sheds some light on the problem (situation)...
KevinO
Kevin Old wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a Mandrake (8.1) server and am having trouble with Sendmail.
> Basically, I want to have an alias that forwards the email sent to it to
> a perl script. I know stuff like this can be done and does work,
> because that is how Majordomo is setup. Majordomo works fine, but when
> I setup an alias like below Sendmail says "Cannot mail directly to
> programs" in the maillog.
>
> Here's my Majordomo forwards (in /etc/aliases):
> forward22: :include:/usr/maj/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/informer
> forward23: "|/usr/maj/majordomo-1.94.5/wrapper request-answer
> informer"
> forward24: :include:/usr/maj/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/ocnews
> forward25: "|/usr/maj/majordomo-1.94.5/wrapper request-answer
> ocnews"
> forward26: "|/usr/maj/majordomo-1.94.5/wrapper majordomo"
>
> The key one's to look at are forward23, 25 and 26....they actually pipe
> to the wrapper program and it spits back an email to send to the user
> who origninated the email.
>
> My line looks like this:
>
> forward155 "| /home/admin/yptest.pl"
>
> They are basically doing the same thing, but I can't get mine to work.
>
> Any help is appreciated,
> Kevin
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