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

Wed Mar 1 23:29:35 EST 2000

Nope. rt should not be running as root.  Does smail support sendmail aliases directly?
Does it have a smrsh analogue for making sure that you only run certain binaries from the mail system?

On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 06:19:42AM +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
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> > I think co-ordinating 1000 prima donnas living all over the world will be as 
> > easy as herding cats..." -- Andy Tanenbaum on the linux development model, 1992
> 
> -- 
> Tapio Lehtonen
> Tapio.Lehtonen at IKI.FI
> PGP public key from http://www.iki.fi/Tapio.Lehtonen

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