forwarding email to inn

[Michael Stassen]

I had this problem with INN 2.2.3 (on Solaris 7).  The problem was that
inews writes to pathtmp (/usr/local/news/tmp, in my case), so it wouldn't
work unless inews was run by user news, not the case for
sendmail->mailpost.  I was under the impression this would be fixed in
2.3.  Then again, you don't say (or I missed it) which version of INN you
have.

Anyway, the solution for me was to make inews setgid news and make pathtmp
group-writable by group news.  I expect you can do this (as root) with

  chmod g+xs /usr/local/news/bin/inews
  chmod g+rwx /usr/local/news/tmp

so inews should be -r-xr-s---   news:news
and pathtmp should be drwxrwx---   news:news

Michael

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Bill Tangren wrote:

> 
> 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> 
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