Bob wrote:
Hi
I sent a help request several hours ago, but have since, in my own efforts to understand and fix, un-installed and re-installed mailman. This is where I am at now.
I am running mailman 2.1.4-5 on a Debian system with Exim4. This is with the split configuration files instead of the single configuration file for exim. I have created a list (test) and that worked. I have added users to the list and that worked. I then sent an email to the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and that didn't work. It seems that mailman is expecting for the group to be daemon and the group that exim is set-up for is Debian-exim. Since this is a Debian installation, I have no control over setting the default user and group that mailman sets up with (--with-mail-gid=). Is there any way to fix this? This is the bounce that I get from exim/mailman when I send the test message
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
pipe to |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post test generated by [EMAIL PROTECTED] local delivery failed
The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:
------ pipe to |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post test generated by [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------
Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail
wrapper script to be executed as group "daemon", but
the system's mail server executed the mail script as
group "Debian-exim".
The answer is here:
Well, your problem is that your mail server is running as a certian user (Debian-exim), which means that it has that users permissions. Your mail server is trying to start another script (the mailman script in question) which needs to be run as a different user (daemon). You can either:Try tweaking the mail server to run thePlease note that I am a relatively new user to linux. I am not a programmer or trained systems expert, so simple explanations would be appreciated.
script as group "daemon", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=Debian-exim'.
1. modify what user your mail server runs as
2. modify what user mailman runs as
3. try to get your mail server to run the script as the mailman user
I'm not an exim admin so I can't help you with options 1 or 3. I run postfix on my server.
If you want to use option 2, as suggested by the error message above you will need to reinstall mailman. When you install mailman, you run configure with the --with-mail-gid=Debian-exim.
ie:
./configure --with-mail-gid=Debian-exim
It will then configure mailman to be run as the user your mailer wants to use to run the script.
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