[Mailman-Users] wrapper not available for sendmail?

[Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Philip White wrote:

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> I created the a "etc-officers" mailing list, but when I try to subscribe
> to it from a different e-mail address, here's what I get in response to
> my confirmation reply:
> 
> 
> ~   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd etc-officers"
> ~    (reason: service unavailable)
> ~    (expanded from: <etc-officers-request at gigacluster.net>)
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> ~   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> smrsh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs
> 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
> 

Looks like you're running sendmail with smrsh (secure mail shell). To get it
to work with mailman, you'll need to make a link in wherever smrsh things
should be linked on your OS. eg On Solaris, it's /var/adm/sm.bin. If this
directory doesn't exist, create it then populate it with anything that smrsh
will need to run eg procmail, vacation, wrapper. It may look something like
this:

% ls -l /var/adm/sm.bin

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         23 Aug  9  2001 procmail -> /usr/local/bin/procmail*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         25 Jun 28 10:38 wrapper -> /home/mailman/mail/wrapper



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