Question on Fedora's RPM of Mailmail and Sendmail

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Sat Feb 2 22:20:22 UTC 2008


Ben Kamen wrote:
> I'd also like to point out that mailman's Default.py points to
> sendmail in /usr/lib/sendmail when sendmail is actually living in
> /usr/sbin/sendmail per the yum installed package of sendmail 8.14.1
> (oops?)

There is a sendmail link in /usr/lib/sendmail though, so it would be
fine if that's the path that mailman used.

But it's irrelevant anyway, since that setting only applies if you set
the DELIVERY_MODULE to Sendmail.  And if you check the comments in
Defaults.py about that, you'll see that you are warned against this:

# WARNING: Sendmail has security holes and should be avoided.  In
# fact, you must read the Mailman/Handlers/Sendmail.py file before it
# will work for you.
#
#DELIVERY_MODULE = 'Sendmail'
DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect'

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