NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/mail/sendmail/3006

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From: [e-mail] (Eric Wassenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail queueing with old recipient information
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:50:38 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (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,
>                                                      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.
> The queue is local to the system, SunOS 4.0.3 on a Sun 3, perl 4pl19.

In case you are using the SUN sendmail as distributed: it is based
on an old version of sendmail, which does not save the necessary
user information in case the recipients are files or programs.

You need 5.65 [+IDA] or up.

The associated user name is then saved in the qf* file in a line
that starts with 'Cusername' just before the 'Rrecipient' line.
During queue runs, sendmail can now reset its uid appropriately.

Eric Wassenaar
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