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

[Jeremy Leonard]

Thanks for the offer. I have my system working now.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Kanaley" <rvk@agdia.com>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:55 PM
Subject: [KLUG Members] RE: Sendmail, Majordomo, and Redhat 8


> 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.
> >
>
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