OT: Opinions wanted please

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Sat Dec 22 05:03:12 GMT 2012


Jeff,

Never mind, it's all working now. MailScanner was quarantining the "noreply"
address at my domain.

Thanks so much and Merry Christmas.

steve

Quoting Jeff Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu>:

> Steve,
> 
> I am running all of this on Redhat 6.3, same as Centos.  I build and
> install sendmail from source code, so I have the /usr/sbin/smrsh on my
> system.  My /usr/adm/sm.bin directory looks like so:
> 
> (106)> ls -l
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 26 Apr 12  2011 redirectstaff.pl ->
> /etc/mail/redirectstaff.pl*
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 24 Apr 12  2011 redirectstu.pl ->
> /etc/mail/redirectstu.pl*
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 Apr 12  2011 vacation -> /usr/bin/vacation*
> 
> Where the perl scripts I attached reside in /etc/mail, chown
> root:mail, chmod 755.  The Mprog line in my sendmail.cf looks like:
> 
> Mprog,		P=/usr/sbin/smrsh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL,
> R=EnvToL/HdrToL, D=$z:/,
> 
> I would suggest using the debug feature in the script(s), and then
> looking at the files it dumps in /tmp.
> 
> This is all a sendmail config issue, nothing really to do with MailScanner.
> -----------------------------------
> Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D
> Senior Server System Administrator
> Colby College,
> 4214 Mayflower Hill,
> Waterville ME, 04901-8842
> 207-859-4214 (fax 207-859-4186)
> Eastern Time Zone, USA
> -----------------------------------
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com>
> wrote:
> > Well, I'm not sure what's going on but I keep getting the message in
> maillog
> > "Service unavailable".
> >
> > I soft linked in /etc/smrsh the name of the perl script to the modified
> > script you provided me, added the line in aliases, ran newaliases and
> > restarted MailScanner.
> >
> > My sendmail.cf already had the MProg line configured properly.
> >
> > I'm running Centos 6, by the way. Any clues? the smrsh is a little generic
> > to provide a lot, since it references the smrsh.c file, which I don't have
> > on my system.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > steve
> > On 12/21/2012 10:52 AM, Jeff Earickson wrote:
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > Since you use sendmail, have I got just the perl scripts for you.  See
> > attached.
> >
> > If you want to see how this script performs in the real world, send
> > email to "tjchrist at colby.edu",
> > a person who has left and has a redirect set via redirectstaff.pl.
> >
> > For redirect+forwarding, see the redirectstu.pl script.  However, you
> > **really** don't want to do this.
> > Set a redirect and that is it.  Forwarding will bite you (or him) at some
> > point.
> >
> > -----------------------------------
> > Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D
> > Senior Server System Administrator
> > Colby College,
> > 4214 Mayflower Hill,
> > Waterville ME, 04901-8842
> > 207-859-4214 (fax 207-859-4186)
> > Eastern Time Zone, USA
> > -----------------------------------
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > I've been asked to do  a dual task for one of our users. The user is
> > retiring and wants all of his email forwarded to another user. He also
> > wants a message returned to the sender indicating that he is retiring
> > and that from here on, all email should be addressed to the user his
> > email is being forwarded to.
> >
> > I use sendmail, so the forwarding would normally be done in the alias
> > file. I don't like to do out-of-office requests, but this seems like a
> > way to handle the message he wants returned to the sender. I'm not sure
> > both would work at the same time anyway.
> >
> > I use  the user's .procmailrc to handle the OOO stuff.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a better way to do this or an opinion on how I'm
> > thinking of doing this please?
> >
> > I'd rather the retiring user to have handled the sender's notices before
> > leaving but that's not going to happen.
> >
> > Thanks for any input.
> >
> > steve campbell
> >
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