SF bug tracker 1378270. Fix aliases permission check in Postfix.py.

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/admin/www/mailman-install.txt b/admin/www/mailman-install.txt
index bc46faab..58ad401a 100644
--- a/admin/www/mailman-install.txt
+++ b/admin/www/mailman-install.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+
    #GNU Mailman - Installation Manual About this document... About this
    document...
 
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ GNU Mailman - Installation Manual
    barry(at)python.org
 
    Release 2.1
-   May 30, 2005
+   December 13, 2005
 
                                  Front Matter
 
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ GNU Mailman - Installation Manual
    Mailman requires a unique user and group name which will own its
    files, and under which its processes will run. Mailman's basic
    security is based on group ownership permissions, so it's important to
-   get this step right^1. Typically, you will add a new user and a new
+   get this step right1. Typically, you will add a new user and a new
    group, both called mailman. The mailman user must be a member of the
    mailman group. Mailman will be installed under the mailman user and
    group, with the set-group-id (setgid) bit enabled.
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ GNU Mailman - Installation Manual
    the variable data files and install them in separate directories. This
    section will describe the available options.
 
-   The default is to install all of Mailman to /usr/local/mailman^2. You
+   The default is to install all of Mailman to /usr/local/mailman2. You
    can change this base installation directory (referred to here as
    $prefix) by specifying the directory with the --prefix configure
    option. If you're upgrading from a previous version of Mailman, you
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ GNU Mailman - Installation Manual
 
    Make sure the installation directory is set to group mailman (or
    whatever you're going to specify with --with-groupname) and has the
-   setgid bit set^3. You probably also want to guarantee that this
+   setgid bit set3. You probably also want to guarantee that this
    directory is readable and executable by everyone. For example, these
    shell commands will accomplish this:
 
@@ -341,12 +342,6 @@ GNU Mailman - Installation Manual
    installation. It has been tested with various Postfix versions up to
    and including Postfix 2.1.5.
 
-   By default, Postfix treats -owner and -request addresses specially.
-   Since you want Postfix to deliver such messages to Mailman, you should
-   turn off this option by adding this to your main.cf file:
-
-    owner_request_special = no
-
    In order to support Mailman's optional VERP delivery, you will want to
    disable luser_relay (the default) and you will want to set
    recipient_delimiter for extended address semantics. You should comment
@@ -399,11 +394,12 @@ GNU Mailman - Installation Manual
         % bin/genaliases
 
        Make sure that the owner of the data/aliases and data/aliases.db
-       file is mailman and that the group owner for those files is
-       mailman, or whatever user and group you used in the configure
-       command:
+       file is mailman, that the group owner for those files is mailman,
+       or whatever user and group you used in the configure command, and
+       that both files are group writable:
         % su
         % chown mailman:mailman data/aliases*
+        % chmod g+w data/aliases*
 
      * Hack your Postfix's main.cf file to include the following path in
        your alias_maps variable:
@@ -842,8 +838,8 @@ GNU Mailman - Installation Manual
    server. Don't. The Sendmail.py module is misnamed - it's really a
    command line based message handoff scheme as opposed to the SMTP
    scheme used in SMTPDirect.py (the default). Sendmail.py has known
-   security holes and is provided as a proof-of-concept only^4. If you
-   are having problems using SMTPDirect.py fix those instead of using
+   security holes and is provided as a proof-of-concept only4. If you are
+   having problems using SMTPDirect.py fix those instead of using
    Sendmail.py, or you may open your system up to security exploits.
 
   6.3.1 Sendmail ``smrsh'' compatibility
@@ -1071,7 +1067,7 @@ fi
    Mailman has a large number of site-wide configuration options which
    you should now review and change according to your needs. Some of the
    options control how Mailman interacts with your environment, and other
-   options select defaults for newly created lists^5. There are system
+   options select defaults for newly created lists5. There are system
    tuning parameters and integration options.
 
    The full set of site-wide defaults lives in the
@@ -1269,7 +1265,7 @@ fi
    Also check for errors in your syslog files, your mail and web server
    log files and in Mailman's $prefix/logs/error file. If you're still
    having problems, you should send a message to the
-   mailman-users@python.org mailing list^7; see
+   mailman-users@python.org mailing list7; see
    http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users for more
    information.
 
@@ -1505,7 +1501,7 @@ tar xvf MailmanStartup.tar
 
                             About this document ...
 
-   GNU Mailman - Installation Manual, May 30, 2005, Release 2.1
+   GNU Mailman - Installation Manual, December 13, 2005, Release 2.1
 
    This document was generated using the LaTeX2HTML translator.
 
@@ -1521,24 +1517,24 @@ tar xvf MailmanStartup.tar
 
     Footnotes
 
-   ... right^1
+   ... right1
           You will be able to check and repair your permissions after
           installation is complete.
 
-   .../usr/local/mailman^2
+   .../usr/local/mailman2
           This is the default for Mailman 2.1. Earlier versions of
           Mailman installed everything under /home/mailman by default.
 
-   ... set^3
+   ... set3
           BSD users should see the 15.2 section for additional
           information.
 
-   ... only^4
+   ... only4
           In fact, in later versions of Mailman, this module is
           explicitly sabotaged. You have to know what you're doing in
           order to re-enable it.
 
-   ... lists^5
+   ... lists5
           In general, changing the list defaults described in this
           section will not affect any already created lists. To make
           changes after a list has been created, use the web interface or
@@ -1552,7 +1548,7 @@ tar xvf MailmanStartup.tar
           Changing the crontab could mess with other parallel Mailman
           installations.
 
-   ... list^7
+   ... list7
           You must subscribe to this mailing list in order to post to it,
           but the mailing list's archives are publicly visible.
      _________________________________________________________________
@@ -1560,4 +1556,4 @@ tar xvf MailmanStartup.tar
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-   Release 2.1, documentation updated on May 30, 2005.
+   Release 2.1, documentation updated on December 13, 2005.