OT: Opinions wanted please

Sat Dec 22 13:52:10 GMT 2012

Steve,

I see from a later email that you got it working, but to answer your
question, I have
an alias for "ls":

ls      /usr/bin/ls -CFl

So one of those options puts an asterisk at the end of files that are
executable.
Sorry about that, that could puzzle you.  Glad you got it working.

Even though we moved Colby's email to Google 3 or 4 years ago, we have
never been
able to get rid of our legacy email server (now virtual); one of the
big reasons is that
we don't want to loose our redirect feature from these perl scripts.
They are very handy.

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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
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com> wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> My Mprog line is identical to yours. It's the default of the Centos install.
>
> I don't have a directory under /usr named "adm" or a directory anywhere on my
> system named sm.bin. Do you think I should create it? yum shows no package that
> provides it as well.
>
> What does the "*" at the end of the /etc/mail/redirectstu.pl* represent?
>
> I realize MailScanner doesn't come into play here, but that's how I start and
> restart sendmail. I've got mailman running on another older system that uses the
> same scheme, so I tried to compare what was there. The files on that system are
> in /etc/smrsh. I'll do a little googling to see what I can find on Centos 6.3 smrsh.
>
> Thanks for the help. I'll be working on this from home since I need this done by
> Monday.
>
> 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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