thanks for the quick response; unfortunately, no such luck :( fbsd doesnt have a nofiles group, but qmail apparently needs a 'qnofiles' group.. but anyway, mailman didn't work with it.
thanks again, ill keep workin at it.. and let everyone know how i got it workin (if i do...) -tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adi Fairbank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] problems getting mailman to work with qmail > Did you configure mailman with --with-mail-gid=nofiles ? I don't know about > the rest of your problems, but I got it to work simply by making that one > change. I'm running on RedHat 7.x. > > HTH, > -Adi > > tom wrote: > > > > Im attempting to setup mailman (v2.0.8) on a FreeBSD machine with qmail, > > and not having too much luck. Hopefully some of you have some ideas :) > > > > First problem was that mailman couldnt send out messages. This was fixed > > by correctly setting my SMTPHOST in mm_cfg.py. > > > > In accordance with README.QMAIL, ive added some users that qmail runs > > under to the 'mailman' group, and then allowed group read-write on the > > mailman directory. I was unsure which qmail user actually needed access, > > so i setup multiple users to do so: > > > > > grep mailman /etc/group > > mailman:*:1010:qmaill,qmails,qmailr > > > ps aux | grep qmail > > qmails 398 0.0 0.4 940 468 con- I Tue05PM 0:05.46 qmail-send > > qmaill 406 0.0 0.4 880 440 con- I Tue05PM 0:02.35 splogger > > qmail > > root 407 0.0 0.3 880 372 con- I Tue05PM 0:01.19 > > qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox > > qmailr 408 0.0 0.3 880 432 con- I Tue05PM 0:00.52 > > qmail-rspawn > > qmailq 409 0.0 0.3 868 388 con- I Tue05PM 0:00.90 > > qmail-clean > > root 416 0.0 0.4 896 480 con- I Tue05PM 0:02.01 > > tcpserver -H -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.ch > > > > we have some virtual domains setup, and utilize vpopmail. one domain is > > xxx.net, and the domain i want mailman to work with is dev.xxx.net. > > > cat /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/dev.xxxx.net/.qmail-default > > |/usr/local/bin/python /home/mailman/qmail-to-mailman.py > > | /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox > > > > (the qmail-to-mailman.py script is the one from the mailman/contrib/ > > directory). > > > > python is an acceptable version: > > > python > > Python 2.2 (#1, Jan 3 2002, 21:54:19) > > [GCC 2.95.3 [FreeBSD] 20010315 (release)] on freebsd4 > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > > > if i take out the qmail-to-mailman.py from > > domain/dev.xxxx.net/.qmail-default, all mail to dev.xxxx.net bounces, as > > it should because of the 'bounce-no-mailbox' line after it. thus, i > > suspect that qmail-to-mailman.py is getting the mail but (silently) > > dropping or not doing what it should be doing with it. > > > > /home/mailman/logs has some things of interest: > > > > > tail post > > (some lines removed because they are all the same/similar) > > Apr 12 21:03:03 2002 (80009) post to test1-work from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], size=767, 1 failures > > Apr 12 21:04:01 2002 (80021) post to test2-mmantest from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], size=783, 1 failures > > Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80021) post to testproj-test from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], size=779, 1 failures > > Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80021) post to test1-work from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], size=767, 1 failures > > > > > tail smtp > > Apr 12 21:04:01 2002 (80021) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.199 > > seconds > > Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80021) All recipients refused: (61, 'Connection > > refused') > > Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80021) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.156 > > seconds > > Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80021) All recipients refused: (61, 'Connection > > refused') > > Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80021) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.164 > > seconds > > Apr 12 21:04:55 2002 (80029) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.319 > > seconds > > Apr 12 21:05:02 2002 (80052) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.458 > > seconds > > Apr 12 21:05:03 2002 (80052) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.416 > > seconds > > Apr 12 21:05:03 2002 (80052) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.432 > > seconds > > Apr 12 21:07:56 2002 (80084) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.296 > > seconds > > > > > tail qrunner > > Apr 12 20:53:02 2002 (79833) Could not acquire qrunner lock > > Apr 12 20:55:03 2002 (79869) Could not acquire qrunner lock > > Apr 12 20:57:02 2002 (79910) Could not acquire qrunner lock > > Apr 12 20:58:02 2002 (79919) Could not acquire qrunner lock > > Apr 12 20:59:02 2002 (79929) Could not acquire qrunner lock > > Apr 12 21:00:03 2002 (79956) Could not acquire qrunner lock > > Apr 12 21:02:02 2002 (79996) Could not acquire qrunner lock > > Apr 12 21:03:02 2002 (80010) Could not acquire qrunner lock > > Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80022) Could not acquire qrunner lock > > Apr 12 21:05:03 2002 (80047) Could not acquire qrunner lock > > > > anyone have any ideas? is there a place where the i can get more > > information on the problem mailman is having besides 'size=767, 1 > > failures'? > > any ideas/help would be much appreciated. > > > > -tom > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mailman-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
