faxmail problem

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 05:59, azeem ahmad wrote:
> i m configuring hylafax as mail to fax gateway.
> but its not working properly
> when i send mail to zonifax at zoni.com it gives me that error back which is 
> shown below
> /etc/aliases file entry is as below
> zonifax: "|/usr/bin/faxmail -d fax at 5848156"
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The original message was received at Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:53:49 +0500 from 
> [192.168.10.12]
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- 
> "|/usr/bin/faxmail -d fax at 5841019"
>     (reason: Service unavailable)
>     (expanded from: <zonifax at zoni.com>)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> smrsh: "faxmail" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed) 554 5.0.0 
> Service unavailable
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The default sendmail configuration in fedora uses smrsh to
run program aliases.  This limits the programs you can
specify to ones that are symlinked into /etc/smrsh. Basically
it ignores the path specified and looks in /etc/smrsh instead.
ln -s /usr/bin/faxmail /etc/smrsh/faxmail
should fix it.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com