Mail interface, how to configure?

What mta are you using?
can you give me an ls -lR of /usr/lib/rt/bin ?

This is Debian GNU/Linux, the potato version which is currently unstable.

Package: webrt
Version: 1.0.1-3
Severity: normal

– System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux dilbert 2.2.14 #8 SMP Sat Feb 19 20:08:33 EET 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages webrt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.3-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone dat
ii libcgi-pm-perl 2.56-4 perl CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
ii libdbd-mysql-per 1.2202-4 mySQL database interface for Perl
ii libdigest-md5-pe 2.09-1 MD5 Message Digest for Perl
ii make 3.78.1-6 The GNU version of the “make” utility.
ii mysql-client 3.22.30-7 mysql database client binaries
ii perl-5.005 5.005.03-5.3 Larry Wall’s Practical Extracting and Report Lan

dilbert# ls -lR /usr/lib/rt/bin
/usr/lib/rt/bin:
total 7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 12 Feb 25 23:03 rt → suid_wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 12 Feb 25 23:03 rt-mailgate → suid_wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 12 Feb 25 23:03 rtadmin → suid_wrapper
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 2088 Feb 2 15:20 rtmux.pl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 12 Feb 25 23:03 rtq → suid_wrapper
-rwsr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 3272 Feb 2 15:20 suid_wrapper
dilbert#

This machine has smail. I tried on another host where I replaced smail
with sendmail. Looks like there webrt emailing works, but I have not
yet done full testing.

Should the suid_wrapper be suid root, then rt-mailgate could write to
the email directories? I tried running mailgate under strace to see
what file it is trying to open when it gets permission denied, but
seems I can use strace with mailgate only as root, and as root it
works.

Hello,

I think I have WebRT otherwise configured OK, but the email interface
does not work. Specifically, I can not send email to WebRT.

I have the email aliases set up like this in /etc/aliases:

rt: |“/usr/lib/rt/bin/rt-mailgate general correspond”
tyopurkki: |“/usr/lib/rt/bin/rt-mailgate tyopurkki correspond”

If I send to the address tyopurkki, the mail goes to postmaster
because there is permission denied, but I don’t know where.

=================================
dilbert# cat /var/spool/smail/input/12PzH9-0008t0C
!root
!0 1001
!-oem
!-f
!<+>
!-oMs
!dilbert.tapio.lehtonen.fi
!-oMr
!bsmtp
!-oMP
!smail
!

From: MAILER-DAEMON@iki.fi
To: postmaster
Subject: mail failed, sending to address owner
Reference: m12PzH3-0008t7C@dilbert.tapio.lehtonen.fi

------------------------- Failed addresses follow:
“/usr/lib/rt/bin/rt-mailgate tyopurkki correspond” … failed:
transport file: failed to open output file: Permission denied
------------------------- Message text follows:
------------------------
Received: by iki.fi
via sendmail from stdin
id <m12PzH3-0008t7C@dilbert.tapio.lehtonen.fi> (Debian

Smail3.2.0.102)
for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 04:54:05 +0200 (EET)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 04:54:05 +0200
From: System Manager
To: tyopurkki
Subject: Koe taas
Message-ID: 20000301045405.A15840@iki.fi
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i

Nyt vaihdoin root omistajaksi suid_wrapperille.

Tapio

dilbert#

I did not understand the email alias stuff, did not find document
where it was explained, so had to guess.


Tapio Lehtonen
Tapio.Lehtonen@IKI.FI
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Tapio Lehtonen
Tapio.Lehtonen@IKI.FI
PGP public key from Taleman

Nope. rt should not be running as root. Does smail support sendmail aliases directly?
Does it have a smrsh analogue for making sure that you only run certain binaries from the mail system?On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 06:19:42AM +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:09:16PM -0500, Jesse wrote:

What mta are you using?
can you give me an ls -lR of /usr/lib/rt/bin ?

This is Debian GNU/Linux, the potato version which is currently unstable.

Subject: webrt: Email problems
Package: webrt
Version: 1.0.1-3
Severity: normal

– System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux dilbert 2.2.14 #8 SMP Sat Feb 19 20:08:33 EET 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages webrt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.3-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone dat
ii libcgi-pm-perl 2.56-4 perl CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
ii libdbd-mysql-per 1.2202-4 mySQL database interface for Perl
ii libdigest-md5-pe 2.09-1 MD5 Message Digest for Perl
ii make 3.78.1-6 The GNU version of the “make” utility.
ii mysql-client 3.22.30-7 mysql database client binaries
ii perl-5.005 5.005.03-5.3 Larry Wall’s Practical Extracting and Report Lan

dilbert# ls -lR /usr/lib/rt/bin
/usr/lib/rt/bin:
total 7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 12 Feb 25 23:03 rt → suid_wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 12 Feb 25 23:03 rt-mailgate → suid_wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 12 Feb 25 23:03 rtadmin → suid_wrapper
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 2088 Feb 2 15:20 rtmux.pl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 12 Feb 25 23:03 rtq → suid_wrapper
-rwsr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 3272 Feb 2 15:20 suid_wrapper
dilbert#

This machine has smail. I tried on another host where I replaced smail
with sendmail. Looks like there webrt emailing works, but I have not
yet done full testing.

Should the suid_wrapper be suid root, then rt-mailgate could write to
the email directories? I tried running mailgate under strace to see
what file it is trying to open when it gets permission denied, but
seems I can use strace with mailgate only as root, and as root it
works.

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 05:03:35AM +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:

Hello,

I think I have WebRT otherwise configured OK, but the email interface
does not work. Specifically, I can not send email to WebRT.

I have the email aliases set up like this in /etc/aliases:

rt: |“/usr/lib/rt/bin/rt-mailgate general correspond”
tyopurkki: |“/usr/lib/rt/bin/rt-mailgate tyopurkki correspond”

If I send to the address tyopurkki, the mail goes to postmaster
because there is permission denied, but I don’t know where.

=================================
dilbert# cat /var/spool/smail/input/12PzH9-0008t0C
!root
!0 1001
!-oem
!-f
!<+>
!-oMs
!dilbert.tapio.lehtonen.fi
!-oMr
!bsmtp
!-oMP
!smail
!

From: MAILER-DAEMON@iki.fi
To: postmaster
Subject: mail failed, sending to address owner
Reference: m12PzH3-0008t7C@dilbert.tapio.lehtonen.fi

------------------------- Failed addresses follow:
“/usr/lib/rt/bin/rt-mailgate tyopurkki correspond” … failed:
transport file: failed to open output file: Permission denied
------------------------- Message text follows:
------------------------
Received: by iki.fi
via sendmail from stdin
id <m12PzH3-0008t7C@dilbert.tapio.lehtonen.fi> (Debian

Smail3.2.0.102)
for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 04:54:05 +0200 (EET)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 04:54:05 +0200
From: System Manager
To: tyopurkki
Subject: Koe taas
Message-ID: 20000301045405.A15840@iki.fi
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i

Nyt vaihdoin root omistajaksi suid_wrapperille.

Tapio

dilbert#

I did not understand the email alias stuff, did not find document
where it was explained, so had to guess.


Tapio Lehtonen
Tapio.Lehtonen@IKI.FI
PGP public key from Taleman


jesse reed vincent – jrvincent@wesleyan.edu – jesse@fsck.com
pgp keyprint: 50 41 9C 03 D0 BC BC C8 2C B9 77 26 6F E1 EB 91

I think co-ordinating 1000 prima donnas living all over the world will be as
easy as herding cats…" – Andy Tanenbaum on the linux development model, 1992


Tapio Lehtonen
Tapio.Lehtonen@IKI.FI
PGP public key from Taleman

jesse reed vincent – jrvincent@wesleyan.edu – jesse@fsck.com
pgp keyprint: 50 41 9C 03 D0 BC BC C8 2C B9 77 26 6F E1 EB 91
Any e-mail sent to the SLA will immediately become the intellectual property
of the SLA and the author of said message will enter into a period of
indentured servitude which will last for a period of time no less than seven
years.

Nope. rt should not be running as root.

(…)

-rwsr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 3272 Feb 2 15:20 suid_wrapper

RT should be run as the RT user, and it should be able to read/write from
the data directory (where the transactions are kept) as well as the
library files (particularly the RT configuration file, where the database
password is kept).

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