Hi Barry,
Thanks for your response on this.. I was able to get Sendmail to send
me mail, but didn't receive anything with SMTPDirect
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 18:14, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> >>>>> "MG" == Mike Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | That the RH7.2 rpm sets the default to:
> | # DELIVERY_MODULE = 'Sendmail'
> | DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect'
> MG> So I just needed to switch this around and uncomment the
> MG> Sendmail and I can now send messages without any difficulty..
> Except that you potentially open up security holes in your system.
> 'Sendmail' is not secure because it uses the shell and the input
> strings are not sanitized.
Ok.. So I must have something else configured incorrectly.. This is
the default RPM install:
#####
# Delivery defaults
#####
# Delivery module for the message pipeline. See
# Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py for details. Unless overridden
specifically
# in that module, this handler is used for message delivery to the list,
#and
# to an individual user. This value must be a string naming a module in
#the
# Mailman.Handlers package.
#
# SECURITY WARNING: The Sendmail module is not secure! Please read the
# comments in Mailman/Handlers/Sendmail.py for details. Use at your own
# risk.
#
# DELIVERY_MODULE = 'Sendmail'
DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect'
# Ceiling on the number of recipients that can be specified in a single
#SMTP
# transaction. Set to 0 to submit the entire recipient list in one
# transaction. Only used with the SMTPDirect DELIVERY_MODULE.
SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 500
# Maximum number of simulatenous subthreads that will be used for SMTP
# delivery. After the recipients list is chunked according to
#SMTP_MAX_RCPTS,
# each chunk is handed off to the smptd by a separate such thread. If
#your
# Python interpreter was not built for threads, this feature is
#disabled. You
# can explicitly disable it in all cases by setting MAX_DELIVERY_THREADS
#to
# 0. This feature is only supported with the SMTPDirect
#DELIVERY_MODULE.
#
# NOTE: This is an experimental feature and limited testing shows that
#it may
# in fact degrade performance, possibly due to Python's global
#interpreter
# lock. Use with caution.
MAX_DELIVERY_THREADS = 0
# SMTP host and port, when DELIVERY_MODULE is 'SMTPDirect'
SMTPHOST = 'localhost'
SMTPPORT = 0 # default from smtplib
# Command for direct command pipe delivery to sendmail compatible
#program,
# when DELIVERY_MODULE is 'Sendmail'.
SENDMAIL_CMD = '/usr/lib/sendmail'
# Allow for handling of MTA-specific features (i.e. aliases). Most MTAs
#use
# "sendmail" (including Sendmail, Postfix, and Exim). Qmail uses the
#"qmail"
# style.
MTA_ALIASES_STYLE = 'sendmail'
# Set these variables if you need to authenticate to your NNTP server
#for
# Usenet posting or reading. If no authentication is necessary, specify
#None
# for both variables.
NNTP_USERNAME = None
NNTP_PASSWORD = None
# Set this if you have an NNTP server you prefer gatewayed lists to use.
DEFAULT_NNTP_HOST = ''
> MG> Jan 15 12:40:01 2002 gate_news(652): socket . error : (111,
> MG> 'Connection refused')
> This is a socket problem, and not specific to Mailman or Python.
But why is it trying to access a news server? That's the best I can
figure out here..
> MG> What is this supposed to do and how am I supposed to turn it
> MG> off?
> | Also, I still don't see why I'm getting this error:
> | # ./check_perms
> | Traceback (innermost last):
> | File "./check_perms", line 50, in ?
> | MAILMAN_GRPNAME = grp.getgrgid(MAILMAN_GID)[0]
> | TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation
> | # cat /etc/group
> | <snip>
> | mailman:*:501:mailman,james,mike,keb,rgoyal,apache
>
> Try this:
>
> % python
> >>> import grp
> >>> grp.getgrgid(501)
> [what does this print?]
[mike@learningpartnership mike]$ python
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Jul 5 2001, 03:02:19) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat
Linux 7.1 2 on linux-i386
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import grp
>>> grp.getgrgid(501)('mailman', '*', 501, ['mailman', 'apache'])
>>>
Hope this helps..
Mike
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