>Luis Sequeira wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been serving too small lists on my mac with OS 9, using
>>free software:
>> Macjordomo as a list server and Stalker Internet Mail Server as a
>> mail server, so that the mail accounts of the lists actually reside
>> in my mac.
>>
>> I want to move up to OS X, which I hoped would make it easy to do
>> this simple thing. Alas, I have not found any similarly easy to use
>> software that works on OS X. I hoped that I could use the built-in
>> Unix mail features and even downloaded the Linux version of
>> majordomo, but it appears that in OS X even sending mail from the
>> console is somehow disabled.
>
>You will need to enable sendmail and configure it before you can do this.
>
>--
>Bruce Johnson
>University of Arizona
>College of Pharmacy
>Information Technology Group
>
>Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
>
>
Yes, I understand that. But it seems that Apple has made that
intentionally hard to do. I tweaked the configuration files but end
up with an error every time I try to run sendmail:
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 99: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
(line 99 is where I am setting the aliases file)
The message "Group writable directory" seems nonsense to me. How can
a program not open a file because of such a thing (which is not even
true). Is this meant to sell more copies of OS X Server by
deliberately disabling a common feature of Unix?!
sorry for the rant, but this has been a very bad day...
Luis
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