[BlueOnyx:06675] Re: Stopping backscatter from majordomo ?

[Jason Ozin]

Some more information, A note to Michael and a possible fix.

More information and Possible fix
--------------------------------------------------

Originally I had removed majordomo completely following this from Michael:
http://www.solarspeed.net/otrs/public.pl?Action=PublicFAQ&ItemID=21
But looking again I noticed that in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf 
this line had reverted to:

# location of alias file
O AliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases, /etc/mail/aliases.majordomo

So I changed it again to this::

# location of alias file
O AliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases
#, /etc/mail/aliases.majordomo

And restarted the appropriate services.

So two questions.
1. Is that likely to fix my issue?
2. Why did it revert - will it do so at every update?

And a third question please, doing:
rpm -qa | grep -i maillist
I get:
  base-maillist-locale-da_DK-1.4.1-1BQ7.centos5
  base-maillist-locale-de_DE-1.4.1-1BQ7.centos5
presumably these can be removed too?

A note to Michael
------------------------------

Michael the text on the page(s) at: 
http://www.solarspeed.net/otrs/public.pl?Action=PublicFAQ&ItemID=21
do not wrap in Fiefox (so you lose the right hand side) and do display at
all in IE8


Jason Ozin


-----Original Message-----
From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it] On
Behalf Of bluequartz at ozin.com
Sent: 12 March 2011 20:33
To: blueonyx at blueonyx.it
Subject: [BlueOnyx:06674] Stoping backscatter from majordomo ?

We have majordomo turned off on our server.
Postmaster keeps replying to mail to majordomo@ and is thus guilty of
backscatter.
How do I stop it replying?

Thanks for your help

Below is an example:

=========================================================

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 19:54:07 GMT
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
To: margheritaeroycemf at flowergallery.com
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details

The original message was received at Wed, 2 Feb 2011 19:54:04 GMT from
[91.73.127.58]

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo -C
/usr/local/majordomo/sites/site4/majordomo.cf"
    (reason: Service unavailable)
    (expanded from: <majordomo at mydomain.org>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
smrsh: "wrapper" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed)
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable


    [ Part 3.2: "Delivery Status" ]

Reporting-MTA: dns; t6.tec1.net
Received-From-MTA: DNS; [91.73.127.58]
Arrival-Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 19:54:04 GMT

Final-Recipient: RFC822; majordomo at mydomain.org
X-Actual-Recipient: X-Unix; |/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo -C
/usr/local/majordomo/sites/site4/majordomo.cf
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 69
Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 19:54:06 GMT

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