opensmtpd setup documentation about sympa HOT 7 CLOSED

Great documentation!

Helping makemap

I guess, if sympa_newaliases.pl feeds PATH environment variable, there may be no need for helper script:

--- a/src/sbin/sympa_newaliases.pl.in
+++ b/src/sbin/sympa_newaliases.pl.in
@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ if ($aliases_program =~ m{\A/}) {
     $log->syslog('debug2', 'Executing "%s %s %s < %s"',
         q{--MAKEMAP--}, $aliases_db_type, $aliases_file, $aliases_file);
 
+    # Since makemap(8) of OpenSMTPD reinvokes itself without full path, we
+    # have to feed PATH environment.  Helpful to OpenBSD and Debian.
+    $ENV{PATH} = '/usr/sbin';
+
     unless (open STDIN, '<', $aliases_file) {
         $log->syslog('err', 'Canot open %s', $aliases_file);
         exit 1;

Tracking feature

Sendmail command of OpenSMTPD seems not supporting options for DSN (-N) and envelope ID (-V). These options are used by message tracking feature of Sympa. I suppose sympa_smtpc may be used as a replacement of sendmail command to support this feature (adding a line such as

sendmail /path/to/sympa_smtpc --esmtp localhost

to sympa.conf).

(Unfortunately, currently sympa_smtpc looks disabled on Debian package).

Update: Correct sympa_smtpc setting.

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Updated a ton of typos that were pointed out to me.

I agree for the PATH env, but in my case at the first aliases.db generation the chmod was still necessary… so for now it'll only remove one line

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I agree for the PATH env, but in my case at the first aliases.db generation the chmod was still necessary… so for now it'll only remove one line

Maybe it's a bug: Perhaps umask (027) set by sympa.pl is applied to aliases.db (mode 640), but it should be readable by MTA user. I'll submit PR in a few days.

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I agree for the PATH env, but in my case at the first aliases.db generation the chmod was still necessary… so for now it'll only remove one line

Maybe it's a bug: Perhaps umask (027) set by sympa.pl is applied to aliases.db (mode 640), but it should be readable by MTA user. I'll submit PR in a few days.

I found that at least Postfix doesn't mind permission: It can access to aliases.db owned by sympa:sympa and having mode 640. I'll investigate a bit to find the method not making aliases.db world-readable, if possible.

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Maybe I found solution.

1. If aliases file does not exist, create it.

# touch /etc/mail/sympa/aliases

2. Make sympa_aliases writable/readable by sympa, readable by smtpd and not accessible by any other users:

# chmod 640 /etc/mail/sympa/aliases
# chown sympa:smtpd /etc/mail/sympa/aliases

3. Use makemap to update table.
   Add following line to sympa.conf:

aliases_program /usr/sbin/makemap

from sympa.

@koolfy, could you contribute your work for Sympa documentation?
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa-community.github.io

from sympa.

Let's continue on the new project: sympa-community/sympa-community.github.io#2

This issue is closed.

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