[KLUG Members] RE: Sendmail, Majordomo, and Redhat 8

[Bob Kanaley]

Jeremy,

I don't know anything about the "smrch" thing, but for about two years I
have been hosting a couple of low volume lists on a RedHat 7.0 box with
Majordomo 1.94.5 and Postfix snapshot 20010228 relapse 3.

If after reading the following, you would like some off-list help, I would
be glad to share more detail with you. Just send me an email directly.

My story of setting up majordomo and Postfix goes something like this. When
I took over as sysadmin two years ago I inherited an insecure unpatchable
version of Sendmail and a working majordomo setup. When a scriptkiddie
crashed the company email server, I took the occasion to replace the server
and rebuild the entire security infrastructure from scratch. Rather than
reading the 4" thick book on Sendmail administration, I chose Postfix as a
secure drop-in replacement for my new mail server. I did a cookbook setup
(removing Sendmail, etc. )and installed Postfix from an RPM. Following the
rpm install, I had to change four lines in one config file to get a secure
working Postfix configuration. I installed Majordomo with the majordomo
install.sh script and had to make one change in a default path in the
majordomo config file to get majordomo working. I copied the majordomo list
structure from the old email server then had to change one pathname in the
majordomo config file to match the previous Sendmail/Majordomo paths.
Majordomo has performed flawlessly. Since that time, I have added virus
scanning to Postfix and everything just keeps working.

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk@agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com



> The whole point of this box it to get majordomo to work.
> This is what I get in my mail log when I try to send to a list:
>
>
> I think it has somthing to the with the smrsh thing and
> running the wrapper.
>