Re: [webmin-l] Majordomo in wembin 1.260

[Nigel H. <nj...@ba...>]

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 03:47 -0600, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On 21/Feb/2006 02:52 Nigel Horne wrote ..
> > When creating a new mailing list, the subcriber's file (the file
> > containing the email addresses of all the subscribers) is created as mode
> > 664. This causes sendmail to complain, stating that it won't use it
> > because the file is group-write-enabled.
> > 
> > It would be better if the file were to be created 644.
> 
> There is actually a setting on the Module Config page of the Majordomo
> module to control the default permissions on those files. Unfortunately some
> mail servers require them to be group-writable, while others cannot handle it!
> That's why I made the permissions user editable..

Since the path to sendmail is set in "Global Majordomo options", it is
safe for webmin to assume sendmail is the MTA and set the list members'
file's permissions accordingly.

> 
>  - Jamie

-Nigel

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