[Mailman-Users] Errors after installing Postfix

[Charles W. Statkus]

I can't get rid of this:

 

Jan  5 09:40:24 mail postfix/local[29125]: 75172FBD: to=<test@internetstockmarket.
com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (Command died with status 2: " /home/ma
ilman/mail/wrapper post test". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid
501, GOT gid 99.  (Reconfigure to take 99?) )

 

I have done the following many times:

Problem: I use Postfix for my MTA and the mail wrapper programs are logging complaints about the wrong GID.
Solution: Create a separate aliases file for Postfix in its main.cf config file under the variable alias_maps. Put the file somewhere in Mailman's home directory, or somewhere else where the user mailman has write access to it; as user mailman call Postfix's postalias on the alias file.

% postalias the-alias-file

Also as user mailman, run

% python -c'import os; print os.getgid()' 

This should print out the group id that Mailman should be configured to expect when the mail wrapper programs are run. Call it thegid. Rebuild Mailman with

% ./configure --with-mail-gid=thegid
 

I also tried --with-mail-gid= 501 and --with-mail-gid= mailman

 

The alias file works, I can redirect aliases.

 

What do I do next?

 

Thanks,

 

Chuck

 

[root@mail /home]# ls -l
total 28
.....
drwxrwsrwx   18 root     mailman      4096 Jan  5 09:38 mailman

 

 

[root@mail mailman]# ls -l
total 2980
drwxrwsr-x    8 mailman  mailman      4096 Jan  5 09:35 Mailman
-rw-r--r--    1 root     mailman      1661 Jan  5 09:38 aliases
-rw-r--r--    1 root     mailman     20480 Jan  5 09:38 aliases.db
drwxrwsr-x    4 mailman  mailman      4096 Dec 25 10:50 archives
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Jan  5 09:35 bin
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Jan  5 09:35 cgi-bin
-rw-------    1 root     mailman   2916352 Dec 25 12:07 core
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Jan  5 09:35 cron
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Jan  5 09:35 data
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Jan  5 09:35 filters
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Jan  5 09:35 icons
drwxrwsr-x    4 mailman  mailman      4096 Dec 30 10:19 lists
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Jan  5 09:46 locks
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Dec 29 21:39 logs
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Jan  5 09:35 mail
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman        22 Dec 30 10:08 memb
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Jan  4 17:12 qfiles
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Jan  5 09:35 scripts
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Dec 25 10:50 spam
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Jan  5 09:35 templates
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman     35665 Dec 30 09:42 wrapper