Is their anyone using Mailman on RH 8 with Postfix?
I am, plus amavisd-new with spamassassin 2.50 (been up now 77 hours and am just about to pass the 1000th spam blocked. What a feeling :>)
I loaded their RPM but it looks like it's intended for RH 7.3 and I have
some permission problems.
Who's RPM? And for which program, Mailman or Postfix?
I can create lists but when I try to post to them, I get the following errors: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/var/spool/mailman/qfiles/f3fc338508d6ec557e19843b6d1b3e54b549b9b3.db'
Check that the permissions on the wrapper program are correct, and the permissions on the /var/spool/mailman directory. The trouble with RPMs that aren't made by the distributor is that sometimes little things snag you, such as whomever made the mailman RPM might have tailored it more for a Sendmail installation, while Postfix uses different users for its setup. I ended up installing Mailman by hand (which isn't too difficult, and also allowed me to easily add the ht://Dig patches), installing Postfix via the SRPM from Simon Mudd, amavisd-new by hand (big deal, it's a single Perl script and a config file) and Cyrus IMAPD by hand as well since I wanted to make sure certain authentication methods were disabled. So the only RPM'd packages on the server are Postfix and Apache, and since the others are simple to install and/or don't require upgrades often, it shouldn't be a maintenance nightmare.
You may want to consider the same or a similar approach; even if you use a SRPM, you can at least tailor the package more to your own site that way, still have the ease of later saying 'rpm -Uvh foo', but not get "trapped" by whatever the package maintainer decided to do for his own setup. Good maintainers will make either multiple packages for varying setups, or if possible one which encompasses most/all variables. When you're talking about the delicate interactions between multiple programs (especially since Postfix is quite particular about its environment), sometimes the ease of RPM isn't worth it.
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