RE: [cobalt-users] Mail for httpd

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:35 PM 12/25/99  Dan wrote:

> Thanks. I have moved and deleted those files, but I was hoping to figure out
> how they got there. I guess some forms that were owned by httpd sent mail
> with the reply address of httpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx so it ended up there.
> I hoped there was a way to POP3 httpd but no password I tried for it worked.

From user admin, you can do the following:
  $ su
  <type in password>
  # passwd httpd
  <then type new password for user httpd>
  <type it again>.
  #

Now user httpd will have a password and you can use your email client to 
retrieve email via pop3 by setting up an account for it.

Or, instead of the above, you can set up an alias in your /etc/aliases file:

  httpd: admin

and any email to httpd will go to the same place you read your admin email.

Since I'm not sure if the RaQ's web-based administration program will 
rewrite the aliases file, eliminating my changes, I choose to make my own 
additions in a separate aliases file.

You can use a file something like /etc/aliases.local for this.  If you do, 
you'll have to add a line to /etc/sendmail.cf so sendmail will understand 
the addtional file.

Look for the line that says:

  O AliasFile=/etc/aliases.majordomo

and add a line right under it that says

  O AliasFile=/etc/aliases.local

Then you'll have to stop and restart sendmail.  Although there's probably 
more than one way to do this, I do it as root:

  # ps ax | grep sendmail

and then look for the line that says something about sendmail accepting 
connections on line 25.

Look at the pid (the first number on this line); it might be something like 
3648 (it can be any number).

Then, again as root:

  # kill -HUP <pid>

where <pid> is that number you found when the you did the first command.

This will restart the copy of sendmail that's listening for new messages, 
and in so doing read in the changed sendmail.cf file.  It will not hurt 
sendmail or your system in any way, nor will it keep you from getting or 
sending any email.

There may very well be a script on the RaQ that does this; I haven't 
looked; I've been using generic unix commands for a long time <smile>.

Don't forget that any time you make changes to any "aliases" file, you need 
to run (also as root):

  # newaliases

To tell sendmail to convert the aliases files into databases and to reread 
them into sendmail's memory.

I hope this helped <smile>.

Jeff