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  • Committer: Launchpad Patch Queue Manager
  • Date: 2009-10-21 01:06:17 UTC
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You may be tempted to set the <var>DELIVERY_MODULE</var> configuration variable in
 
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<span class="file">mm_cfg.py</span> to <code>'Sendmail'</code> when using the Sendmail mail server.
 
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<strong>Don't</strong>.  The <span class="file">Sendmail.py</span> module is misnamed - it's really a
 
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command line based message handoff scheme as opposed to the SMTP scheme used
 
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in <span class="file">SMTPDirect.py</span> (the default).  <span class="file">Sendmail.py</span> has known security
 
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holes and is provided as a proof-of-concept only<a name="tex2html4"
 
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versions of Mailman, this module is explicitly sabotaged.  You have to know
 
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