[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 RC1 + Plugin cmusieve "Sendmail qui with signal 11"

[Steffen Kaiser]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Dominique Feyer wrote:

Just add (for the archives :-) this problematic binary reported is not 
"sendmail", but the sendmail-wrapper of postfix :-)

there is this sentence in one of the mails: (the
postfix comptatibility command, not sure for the orginal sendmail
binary).

Real sendmail is setgid and uses its own smmsp group in Debian Sarge. (No 
setuid).

> If the deliver is setuid/setgid, the sendmail binary must be
> setuid/setgid too. Without this sendmail try to check limits.conf (pam)
> for the virtual user. For the system the virtual user doesn't exist and
> sendmail crash with a segfault (signal 11)
>
> Before that, I try to do a wrapper in bash to lauch sendmail with sudo
> (more configurable than setgid), but a virtual user can't use sudo. You
> must configure pam to have this virtual user in linux too.
>
> Sendmail as setgid binary is not a really good solution for security,
> but it's the only solution I found.
>
> On a lots of system sendmail is setgid, but not on debian.
>
>
> Le jeudi 06 juillet 2006 à 19:48 +0800, Timothy White a écrit :
>> On 7/6/06, Dominique Feyer <dfeyer at net4all.ch> wrote:
>>> After many new test, i solve thi problem ;-)
>>>
>>> This was a setuid and pam problem, so no bug from LDA or Dovecot.
>>
>> Just for the archives, and encase someone else hits this problem,
>> would you care to share the solution?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tim
>

-- 
Steffen Kaiser