forwarding email to inn

[Bill Tangren]

I did this, and I now get the error:

inews failed: sh: /usr/local/news/bin/inews: Permission denied

After looking at some archived posts to this list serv, I think this is caused by 
not having a flag "--enable-setgid-inews" set on ./configure of inn. Is this true? Will 
this fix the problem?

Bill Tangren


> 
> 
> Looks to me like 
> 
>   > smrsh: mailpost not available for sendmail programs
> 
> is the clue.  It appears that sendmail/smrsh is refusing to run
> mailpost.  See http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.34 
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Bill Tangren wrote:
> 
> > 
> > This question may be better posed to procmail (or sendmail) lists, but I 
> > thought I would try here first. I have a test user on my RedHat 7.0 box 
> > called 'helptest'. I have a line in my /etc/aliases file that reads:
> > 
> > 
> > helptest: "|/usr/bin/mailpost -d local usno.aa.test"
> > 
> > 
> > The newsgroup I set up is usno.aa.test. When I send an email to helptest, 
> > I get the following error (in a returned email):
> > 
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > "|/usr/bin/mailpost -d local usno.aa.test" 
> >     (reason: service unavailable)
> >     (expanded from: <helptest at aa.usno.navy.mil>)
> > 
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > smrsh: mailpost not available for sendmail programs
> > 554 5.0.0 "|/usr/bin/mailpost -d local usno.aa.test" ... Service
> > unavailable
> > 
> > Could the problem be in how I set up the newsgroup?  I read the man pages for mailpost 
> > and inews. 
> > 
> > 
> > Bill Tangren
> > 
> > 
>