I appear to have discovered yet another way to prevent mailman from
sending out those pesky mailing list emails ;) ... I've been through
the checklist on 3.14 of the FAQ, also checked the RH9 Sendmail FAQ
and everything (so far) checks out
but mailman does not send mail.
The possibly complicating factor is this host having two virtual
domains, although sending regular emails _to_ either the
lists.xmlteam.com or fod2.xmlteam.com addresses seems to work just
fine:
I'm using the RPM in the RH9 distribution, mailman-2.1-8, with
sendmail configured with the cw option set and including all possible
hostnames for this IP, /etc/mail/access includes all the domains as
RELAY able, there's nothing at all in the mailman/error (0 bytes) and
mailman is correctly entered into the smrsh. I've even set the
SMTPHOST to the IP, just in case
Another possible clue: while Sendmail appears to route the inbound
message correctly, nothing shows up in the archives or the moderation
queue.
the only entries in the /var/log/maillog goes like this:
Nov 10 20:53:19 feed2 sendmail[558]: iAB1quDr000552:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505/501),
delay=00:00:23, xdelay=00:00:11, mailer=relay, pri=30416,
relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (iAB1r8FO\000559
Message accepted for delivery)
Nov 10 20:53:22 feed2 sendmail[565]: iAB1r8FO000559:
to="|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post xtnews",
ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (8/0), delay=00:00:04,
xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=prog, pri=30965, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
sendmail -bt also suggests the aliases and virtual host configuration
are correct ...
# /usr/lib/sendmail -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post xtnews"... deliverable: mailer
prog, user "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post xtnews"
Now, one suspicious thing: RH9 apparently runs Sendmail under the user
group 'smmsp', and when I tried to run /var/mailman/mail/mailman as
the smmsp _user_, I got
# sudo -u smmsp /var/mailman/mail/mailman post xtnews
Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be
executed as one of the following groups:
[mail, nobody, mailman],
but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group: "smmsp".
Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as one of these groups:
[mail, nobody, mailman],
or re-run configure providing the command line option:
'--with-mail-gid=smmsp'.
Smoking gun? Clear case of a RH9 mis-packaging? Must I _recompile_
mailman to make this change? (I'm afraid changing RH9's Sendmail
installation as recommended could open an even larger can of worms)
Any other diagnostic tests I can run?
--
gary lawrence murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :: xml team solutions
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