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diff --git a/README.SENDMAIL b/README.SENDMAIL deleted file mode 100644 index 3d9a8138..00000000 --- a/README.SENDMAIL +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +0,0 @@ -Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System -Copyright (C) 1998-2004 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. -59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA - -SECURITY NOTE - - You may be tempted to set the DELIVERY_MODULE configuration - variable in mm_cfg.py to `Sendmail' when using the Sendmail MTA. - 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 (the default). Sendmail.py has known - security holes and is provided as a proof-of-concept only. If you - are having problems using SMTPDirect.py please fix those instead - of using Sendmail.py, or you may open your system up to security - exploits. - - -SENDMAIL `smrsh' COMPATIBILITY - - Many newer versions of Sendmail come with a restricted execution - utility called "smrsh", which limits the executables that Sendmail - will allow to be used as mail filter programs. You need to - explicitly allow Mailman's wrapper program to be used with smrsh - or Mailman will not work. If mail is not getting delivered to - Mailman's wrapper program and you're getting an "operating system - error" in your mail syslog, this could be your problem. - - One good way of doing this is to: - - - Find out where your Sendmail executes its smrsh wrapper - - % grep smrsh /etc/mail/sendmail.cf - - - Figure out where smrsh expects symlinks for allowable filter - programs. At the very beginning of the following output you will - see a full path to some directory, e.g. /var/adm/sm.bin or similar: - - % strings $path_to_smrsh | less - - - cd into /var/adm/sm.bin, or where ever it happens to reside on your - system, such as /etc/smrsh, /var/smrsh or /usr/local/smrsh. - - % cd /var/adm/sm.bin - - - create a symbolic link to Mailman's wrapper program - - % ln -s /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman mailman - - -INTEGRATING SENDMAIL AND MAILMAN - - David Champion has contributed a recipe for more closely - integrating Sendmail and Mailman, such that Sendmail will - automatically recognize and deliver to new mailing lists as they - are created, without having to manually edit alias tables. - - In the contrib directory, you will find four files - - mm-handler.readme - an explanation of how to set everything up - mm-handler - the mail delivery agent (MDA) - mailman.mc - a toy configuration file sample - virtusertable - a sample for RFC 2142 address exceptions - - -PERFORMANCE NOTES - - One of the surest performance killers for Sendmail users is when - Sendmail is configured to synchronously verify the recipient's - host via DNS. If it does this for messages posted to it from - Mailman, you will get horrible performance. Since Mailman usually - connects via localhost (i.e. 127.0.0.1) to the SMTP port of - Sendmail, you should be sure to configure Sendmail /not/ to do DNS - verification synchronously for localhost connections. - - - -Local Variables: -mode: text -indent-tabs-mode: nil -End: |