Problems with Smail & pipe

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2 total messages Started by Matthias Kloas Mon, 09 Nov 1992 14:44

#2183

Author: Matthias Kloas
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 14:44

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Hi,

I have problems some problems with smail and i am looking for help.
I installed smail (3.1.28) on our Network (NeXTs running NS 2.1). Everything  
works fine except one alias:

BeNG: "|/usr/server/catmail -L BENG -f"

This alias should pipe the mail to catmail.
Unfortunaly smail comes up with an the following error message:

director aliases: matched BeNG, aliased to "| /usr/server/catmail -L BENG -f"
write_log:no valid recipients were found for this message
write_log:"| /usr/server/catmail -L BENG -f" ... failed: (ERR_104) director  
aliases: security violation

Obviously there is something wrong with my configuration, but I don't  
understand what.

Any help is appreciated.

Matthias

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Matthias Kloas
ti@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de
Institut fuer Energietechnik
Technische Universitaet Berlin

Re: Problems with Smail & pipe

#2189

Author: Ronald S. Karr
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 06:22

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In article <1dltfkINNj93@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> ti@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Matthias Kloas) writes:
>I have problems some problems with smail and i am looking for help.
>I installed smail (3.1.28) on our Network (NeXTs running NS 2.1). Everything  
>works fine except one alias:
>
>BeNG: "|/usr/server/catmail -L BENG -f"
>
>Unfortunaly smail comes up with an the following error message:
>
>director aliases: matched BeNG, aliased to "| /usr/server/catmail -L BENG -f"
>write_log:no valid recipients were found for this message
>write_log:"| /usr/server/catmail -L BENG -f" ... failed: (ERR_104) director  
>aliases: security violation

Most likely, your aliases file is world writable.  Smail doesn't allow
files or commands to be listed in world writable aliases files.  You can
either change your aliases file, or you can change smail to allow world
writable files.  To change smail to allow world-writable files, copy the
source file samples/generic/directors to /usr/lib/smail/directors and
edit it as you see fit for other localized changes.  In the aliases
director, set "modemask=0" rather than the current "modemask=002".
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