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6.3.1 Sendmail ``smrsh'' compatibility</a>
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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 programs.  You need to explicitly allow Mailman's wrapper program
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One good way of enabling this is:

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