[rt-users] Mail interface, how to configure?

[Tapio Lehtonen]

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:09:16PM -0500, Jesse wrote:
> What mta are you using? 
> can you give me an ls -lR of /usr/lib/rt/bin ?
> 

This is Debian GNU/Linux, the potato version which is currently unstable. 

Subject: webrt: Email problems
Package: webrt
Version: 1.0.1-3
Severity: normal

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux dilbert 2.2.14 #8 SMP Sat Feb 19 20:08:33 EET 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages webrt depends on:
ii  libc6            2.1.3-2          GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone dat
ii  libcgi-pm-perl   2.56-4           perl CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
ii  libdbd-mysql-per 1.2202-4         mySQL database interface for Perl
ii  libdigest-md5-pe 2.09-1           MD5 Message Digest for Perl
ii  make             3.78.1-6         The GNU version of the "make" utility.
ii  mysql-client     3.22.30-7        mysql database client binaries
ii  perl-5.005       5.005.03-5.3     Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Lan

dilbert# ls -lR /usr/lib/rt/bin   
/usr/lib/rt/bin:
total 7
lrwxrwxrwx    1 www-data www-data       12 Feb 25 23:03 rt -> suid_wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx    1 www-data www-data       12 Feb 25 23:03 rt-mailgate -> suid_wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx    1 www-data www-data       12 Feb 25 23:03 rtadmin -> suid_wrapper
-rwxr-xr-x    1 www-data www-data     2088 Feb  2 15:20 rtmux.pl
lrwxrwxrwx    1 www-data www-data       12 Feb 25 23:03 rtq -> suid_wrapper
-rwsr-xr-x    3 www-data www-data     3272 Feb  2 15:20 suid_wrapper
dilbert# 

This machine has smail. I tried on another host where I replaced smail
with sendmail. Looks like there webrt emailing works, but I have not
yet done full testing.

Should the suid_wrapper be suid root, then rt-mailgate could write to
the email directories? I tried running mailgate under strace to see
what file it is trying to open when it gets permission denied, but
seems I can use strace with mailgate only as root, and as root it
works.

> 
>  On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 05:03:35AM +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I think I have WebRT otherwise configured OK, but the email interface
> > does not work. Specifically, I can not send email to WebRT. 
> > 
> > I have the email aliases set up like this in /etc/aliases:
> > 
> > rt:     |"/usr/lib/rt/bin/rt-mailgate general correspond"
> > tyopurkki:	|"/usr/lib/rt/bin/rt-mailgate tyopurkki correspond"
> > 
> > If I send to the address tyopurkki, the mail goes to postmaster
> > because there is permission denied, but I don't know where. 
> > 
> > =================================
> > dilbert# cat /var/spool/smail/input/12PzH9-0008t0C 
> > !root            
> > !0 1001
> > !-oem
> > !-f
> > !<+>
> > !-oMs
> > !dilbert.tapio.lehtonen.fi
> > !-oMr
> > !bsmtp
> > !-oMP
> > !smail
> > !<postmaster>
> > 
> > From: <MAILER-DAEMON at iki.fi>
> > To: postmaster
> > Subject: mail failed, sending to address owner
> > Reference: <m12PzH3-0008t7C at dilbert.tapio.lehtonen.fi>
> > 
> > |------------------------- Failed addresses follow:
> > ---------------------|
> >  "/usr/lib/rt/bin/rt-mailgate tyopurkki correspond" ... failed:
> > transport file: failed to open output file: Permission denied
> > |------------------------- Message text follows:
> > ------------------------|
> > Received: by iki.fi
> > 	via sendmail from stdin
> > 	id <m12PzH3-0008t7C at dilbert.tapio.lehtonen.fi> (Debian
> > Smail3.2.0.102)
> > 	for <unknown>; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 04:54:05 +0200 (EET) 
> > Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 04:54:05 +0200
> > From: System Manager <sysman>
> > To: tyopurkki
> > Subject: Koe taas
> > Message-ID: <20000301045405.A15840 at iki.fi>
> > Mime-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i
> > 
> > Nyt vaihdoin root omistajaksi suid_wrapperille.
> > 
> > 	Tapio
> > 
> > dilbert# 
> > ========================================
> > 
> > I did not understand the email alias stuff, did not find document
> > where it was explained, so had to guess. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Tapio Lehtonen
> > Tapio.Lehtonen at IKI.FI
> > PGP public key from http://www.iki.fi/Tapio.Lehtonen
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> jesse reed vincent -- jrvincent at wesleyan.edu -- jesse at fsck.com 
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> --------------------------------------------------------------
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-- 
Tapio Lehtonen
Tapio.Lehtonen at IKI.FI
PGP public key from http://www.iki.fi/Tapio.Lehtonen
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