07-27-2012
It's telling you the problem -- /etc/mail/trusted-users or /etc/mail is world-writable. Someone must have used the magic sledgehammer, chmod 777-ing it in the past in a misguided attempt to fix a 'problem'.
When something is running as root, loose permissions are a big deal. Anything could inject malicious contents into there and mislead a root daemon, possibly executing arbitrary commands or escalating permissions. So it does checks on it that it wouldn't when running as a limited user.
Reduce the permissions to what you actually need.
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amc-mailing
AMC-MAILING(1) Auto Multiple Choice AMC-MAILING(1)
NAME
AMC-mailing - mail PDF annotated completed answer sheets to students
SYNOPSIS
auto-multiple-choice mailing [--xmlargs args.xml] --projet project-dir --students-list students-list.csv [--list-encoding encoding]
--email-column col --sender sender-email --subject subject --text email-body [--debug file.log]
[transport arguments...]
DESCRIPTION
The command AMC-mailing.pl sends by email the PDF annotated completed answer sheets to the students. Email addresses are taken from the
students list file.
--projet project-dir
Gives the project directory.
--students-list students-list.csv
sets the students list file name.
--list-encoding encoding
selects an encoding for file students-list.csv (default is utf-8).
--email-column col
sets the name of the column containing the email addresses of the students in the students list file.
--sender sender-email
sets the sender email.
--subject subject
sets the subject of the emails to send.
--text email-body
sets the body text of the emails to send.
--transport transport
sets the transport to use. transport may be sendmail or SMTP.
--debug file.log
gives a file to fill with debugging information.
TRANSPORT ARGUMENTS
Depending on the value used for argument transport, the following arguments can be added:
Transport sendmail
--sendmail-path path
sets the path to the sendmail command (defaults to /usr/sbin/sendmail).
Transport SMTP
--smtp-host host
sets the SMTP hostname (defaults to smtp).
--smtp-port port
sets the port to use (default value is 25).
ARGUMENTS IN A XML FILE
To avoid encoding problems, one can place some arguments in a XML file and use the --xmlargs file.xml argument as the first command
argument. Here is an exemple of such a file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<arguments>
<arg>--sender</arg><arg>Bienvenue <paamc@passoire.fr></arg>
<arg>--text</arg><arg>Voila votre copie corrigee</arg>
<arg>--subject</arg><arg>QCM</arg>
</arguments>
AUTHORS
Alexis Bienvenue <paamc@passoire.fr>
Main author
Jean Berard
Translation from French
Georges Khaznadar
Translation from French
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Alexis Bienvenue
This document can be used according to the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.
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