Hello,
Richard A Nelson a écrit (Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:53:43AM -0700) :
- is it mandatory to use /etc/mail/sendmail.conf?
No, not at all
- is there a way to manually configure sendmail the classical way
set this variable in /etc/mail/sendmail.conf
HANDS_OFF=Yes;
After setting
Hello,
Sorry for the delay, I was abroad and off-line for a week.
So I just talked with the sysadmin in charge of the mailhost (he is in
cc:).
We're going slightly out of topic for debian-security but I keep it
there for the record.
A file in /etc that was overwritten silently is a bug.
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Emmanuel Halbwachs wrote:
For some reasons, the admins didn't configure sendmail the Debian
way and didn't use the queue aging feature in
/etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
- is it mandatory to use /etc/mail/sendmail.conf?
No, not at all
- is there a way to manually configure
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Emmanuel Halbwachs wrote:
Emmanuel Halbwachs a ?crit (Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:57:43PM +0100) :
- after the upgrade : in some cases (more on this below), incoming
mail goes to /var/spool/mqueue/daily and is stuck there
OK, the problem was on our side:
Hello,
We are experiencing problems after the sendmail security upgrade on
our mailhost.
- do some other people out there are experiencing some troubles after
this upgrade ?
- is there a way to downgrade the sendmail packages to the previous
version before the security fix ? (i. e.
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Emmanuel Halbwachs wrote:
We are experiencing problems after the sendmail security upgrade on
our mailhost.
What sort of problems, exactly?
- is there a way to downgrade the sendmail packages to the previous
version before the security fix ?
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:38:40PM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote:
If you can find a .deb of the package version you want, something like:
dpkg --force-downgrade --install sendmail-whatever.deb
should do the trick. Be aware that forcing a downgrade doesn't check
for dependencies on the newer,
Hans a écrit (Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:38:01PM -0500) :
Can you be more specific about the problems you are having?
I am not the guy who administer the mailhost, but I just talk to my
fellow postmaster. I'll try:
- the sendmail config uses 6 queues: in, out, in.hourly, out.hourly,
in.daily,
Hello again,
Emmanuel Halbwachs a écrit (Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:57:43PM +0100) :
- after the upgrade : in some cases (more on this below), incoming
mail goes to /var/spool/mqueue/daily and is stuck there
OK, the problem was on our side:
/etc/cron.d/sendmail has been tailored to our needs
This one time, at band camp, Emmanuel Halbwachs said:
Hello again,
Emmanuel Halbwachs a écrit (Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:57:43PM +0100) :
- after the upgrade : in some cases (more on this below), incoming
mail goes to /var/spool/mqueue/daily and is stuck there
OK, the problem was on our
All seems ok here.
Can you be more specific about the problems you are having?
Hans.
Le vendredi 24 mars 2006 à 18:31 +0100, Emmanuel Halbwachs a écrit :
Hello,
We are experiencing problems after the sendmail security upgrade on
our mailhost.
- do some other people out there are
* Stephen Gran [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:45:52 +]:
This one time, at band camp, Emmanuel Halbwachs said:
/etc/cron.d/sendmail has been tailored to our needs and has been
reverted to a standard Debian one by the upgrade.
Very sorry for the noise and thanks for your collaboration.
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