[Mailman-Users] Newbe Headaches

[Bob Sully]

Jon:  I did install from source but paid special attention to the smrsh 
directories.  Everything is where it should be.  Still didn't work.

-- Bob --


On 12 Mar 2003, Jon Carnes wrote:

> Most of these (I think) were from folks upgrading their Sendmail due to
> the recent vulnerability and subsequent update release.  I would hope
> that folks using package management (like rpm or apt-get) would have no
> problems if they used the updated packages for their distributions.
> 
> If folks are installing from source they could easily overlook the
> placement of the smrsh directories...
> 
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 13:02, Bob Sully wrote:
> > 
> > Jon:
> > 
> > You've seen the flurry of these over the past couple of weeks.  I firmly 
> > believe that the problem lies with some mod to smrsh in the latest 
> > versions of Sendmail.  I had previously been running 2.0.13 with 
> > Sendmail 8.12.3 without a problem...after upgrading to 8.12.7 I got the 
> > same message as below; same thing with 8.12.8.  The only way to get 
> > around this is to disable smrsh in sendmail.mc -> sendmail.cf.  This is 
> > bothersome, as smrsh does have some (albeit minor?) security value.  I'd 
> > like to see a fix for this soon.  Perhaps we should alert the Sendmail 
> > developers.

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