Mark Sapiro wrote:
Kevin Ratcliffe wrote:
Can anybody help me please. I've installed Mailman as per the install instructions. I am using exim as my MTA.
I configured mailman with './configure --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=apache'
I installed exim with the user and group 'mail'.
I followed the instructions to configure exim for mailman.
My MTA seems to be working fine.
But I cant seem to get any mailing lists to work.
I can sbuscribe to groups but never get an email reply.
when I do a '$MM_PREFIX/mail/mailman post', I get:
Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail
wrapper script to be executed as group "mail", but
the system's mail server executed the mail script as
group "root". Try tweaking the mail server to run the
script as group "mail", or re-run configure,
providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=root'.
This happens when you run the command as user/group root. What happens when Exim runs it? If exim (or you) runs it as group 'mail', it should be fine.
when I check Mailmans smtp-failure log, I get:
Mar 23 14:27:36 2005 (1390) Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection refused'), msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mar 23 14:27:36 2005 (1390) delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused')
I am assuming that exim cannot do the delivery because it cannot run the '$MM_PREFIX/mail/mailman post' script.
No, that is probably not the reason since the '$MM_PREFIX/mail/mailman post' script is run for an incoming post and the smtp-failure message above is related to an attempt by Mailman to send some message (generated by mailman judging from the msgid) to you. Mailman is unable to connect to the outgoing MTA via SMTP. If you haven't changed SMTPHOST and SMTPPORT from their defaults in Defaults.py, this means Mailman can't connect to 'localhost' port 25. This is probably an Exim or system configuration issue, not a Mailman problem per se.
-- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Thanks for your help Mark.
You were right about the 'connection refused' error. I couldn't telnet to my localhost on port 25 as we have a mail virus scanner on that port, which I'd forgotten about, which needed a bit of messing around with. Now I get replies from mailman.
Alas, I still cannot post to the list I'd created. I think I' getting there though. I try to use mailing lists and usenet as a last resort and try to figure these things out for myself. I prefer being pointed in the right direction.
Thanks again
Kev
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