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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: Sendmail queueing with old recipient information
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.162151.15871@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 16:21:51 GMT
- References: <1gjl83INN9qc@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
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- In article <1gjl83INN9qc@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
-
- >The problem is that the sendmail queue contains the path name to the
- >program in the R field of the qf file. When it gets around to the next
- >delivery attempt, it 1) doesn't bother to look up aliases or .forward
- >files or etc. for the intended recipient (minor) and 2) forgets that it
- >is supposed to setuid before running that program. The latter error
- >means that my perl script is being run as daemon, and it has no access
- >to write to any of my files.
-
- > Is there a way to tell sendmail to keep track of the
- >recipient and do the setuid call it should be doing?
-
- Yes. Get a newer version of sendmail. Berkeley fixed that problem
- in 5.64.
-