Forcing Queue as Apache

[Scott Silva]

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Max Kipness said the following on 6/14/2005 12:28 PM:
> I^Òve been unable to figure out the best method to force email through the
> queue as user apache.
> 
> I^Òve created a web page that lists emails from the
> /var/spool/Mailscanner/^Å/^Å/spam dir. To release an email, I simply have
> some PHP code that copies the email to the /var/spool/mqueue dir. After
> altering permissions in MailScanner.conf, this is not a problem. If I just
> wait for the next queue interval (default 30 min), everything is fine.
> However, I^Òd like the email to deliver immediately, so I have the PHP
> script executing the following command:
> 
> $send = `/usr/sbin/sendmail ^ÖqI$messageid`;
> 
> This causes permissions problems.
> 
> The problems are different if the recipient is local or being relayed to
> another server.
> 
> If the recipient is on a mail server that is being relayed to after the
> spam/virus checks, I get this error:
> 
> Jun 14 14:13:13 mailserver sendmail[6860]: j5E7hvlJ022952: SYSERR(apache):
> mail.xxxxxx.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
> 
> If the recipient is local to the server (this mailscanner server also
> hosts actual Sendmail user accounts), then I get these errors:
> 
> Jun 14 11:49:18 mailserver sendmail[3052]: j5E2sZ61017899: SYSERR(apache):
> hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: Permission denied
> 
> Jun 14 11:49:18 mailserver sendmail[3053]: j5E2sZ61017899: SYSERR(apache):
> openmailer: insufficient privileges to change gid, RunAsUid=48, new_gid=0,
> gid=48, egid=51
> 
> Jun 14 11:49:18 mailserver sendmail[3052]: j5E2sZ61017899: to=blisle,
> delay=13:54:43, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=352836, dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: local mailer (/usr/bin/procmail) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL
> 
> Jun 14 11:49:18 mailserver sendmail[3052]: j5E2sZ61017899: j5EGnIRN003052:
> sender notify: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours
> 
> I was able to get rid of the Alias0 error by changing perms to the
> /etc/aliases.db to 0644 (from 0640). But I can^Òt figure out the other
> errors.
> 
> I was thinking of copying the messages to another folder instead of mqueue
> and then having cronjob running as root look into that folder every 5
> minutes and then copy to mqueue, but I^Òd rather having it instantaneously.
> 
> Any suggestions? And how safe is it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Max
> 
Couldn't you just flush the sendmail queue after the copy.
/usr/lib/sendmail -v -q -C/etc/mail/sendmail.cf, if I remember
correctly, should do. Shouldn't be too much unless you release a lot of
messages fairly often.
But it will send everything in the queue, and not just the released message.

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