I have a mailing list that is to be used with majordomo.
For archival purposes, I need every mail message written to
a special file. I do not want that file to be a normal mailbox
since that would offer a possibility for evil people to
inject articles into the archive that never have seen the
list.
I have the alias file configured as follows:
test-list-outgoing: :include:/var/spool/majordomo/lists/test-list,
/home/wh/lists/test-list
I want the rights to /home/wh/lists/test-list to be as restrictive
as possible, but wh needs to be able to read the file.
I think the following permissions would be appropriate:
palandt:/home/wh/lists # ls -al
total 18
drwx------ 2 wh users 1024 Aug 19 19:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 wh users 1024 Aug 19 18:51 ..
-rw-rw---- 1 wh majordom 9676 Aug 19 19:23 test-list
palandt:/home/wh/lists #
Transports:
address_file:
driver = appendfile
Director:
majordomo_aliases:
domains = "lists.bartsch-partner.de:lists.jahr2000.dgri.de"
driver = aliasfile
file = /usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.aliases
search_type = lsearch
user = majordomo
optional = yes
qualify_preserve_domain = yes
With this config, exim runs the delivery as majordomo. This way,
/home/wh/lists/test-list needs to be writable by majordomo. I have
"solved" that problem by making the dir world-writeable. Is there
any more elegant way? Would giving the directory group majordomo
and making it group writeable work?
The next problem is that exim refuses to write into that file.
It only writes into a file that is owned by majordomo.majordomo
and adjusts the permissions to -rw-------, making it unreadable to
the user who has to read it for processing.
I am reluctant to change the transport's or the director's
properties since they are probably used by many other processes
on that machine.
Is defining a special aliasfile director with a special alias
file that uses the appropriate uid and/or gid and only contains
a single alias really the only option?
Any ideas how to creatively solve this?
Greetings
Marc
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