Hi John, I appreciate your quick response!
John Dennis wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 16:28 -0500, roy vinner wrote: > >>Greetings! >> >>I have a problem that any address which is supposed to be resolved with >>the path-to-mailman/data/aliases produces a "message undeliverable" error. >> >>I've also discovered that if I run an alias expansion from the command line >> >>aliases: >>.............................................. >># STANZA START: try >># CREATED: Mon Jul 25 17:19:03 2005 >>try: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post try" >>try-admin: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin try" >>try-bounces: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces try" >>try-confirm: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm try" >>try-join: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join try" >>try-leave: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave try" >>try-owner: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner try" >>try-request: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request try" >>try-subscribe: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe try" >>try-unsubscribe: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe try" >># STANZA END: try >>.......... >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman-2.1.6]$ /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request try >>Failure to find group name mailman. Try adding this group >>to your system, or re-run configure, providing an >>existing group name with the command line option --with-mail-gid. >> >>I have re-run mailman's configure as requested by the above message and >>group mailman does exist on my machine. I am clueless as to what is awry >>here with postfix aliases? Is this a postfix or mailman problem? >> >>Let me know if you need any more information for logs or config files. > > > There are two immediate things to check: > > 1) I know you said it, but please verify the mailman uid and gid: > > # id mailman [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman]$ id mailman uid=505(mailman) gid=407(mailman) groups=407(mailman),73(apache),503(nrgweb),504(roy),422(www) > 2) Postfix has a "feature" which is it will run the commands found in an > alias file under the identity of the alias file. What is the owner/group > of the alias file: > > # ls -l path-to-mailman/data/aliases [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman]$ ls -l data/aliases -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2682 Jul 28 11:35 data/aliases > if its group does not match what the mailman wrapper is configured for > you'll get group mismatch problems because postfix will attempt to run > the mailman alias commands under the group belonging to the alias file, > not to the mail_owner in postfix's main.cf file. I think I recall a > config variable to turn the postfix behavior off, but you should not do > that because mailman should be creating the alias file and hence it > should match the uid/gid, but if you hand created it, then all bets are > off. I re-configured mailman with all defaults (I created a group www with [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman]$ id www uid=506(www) gid=422(www) groups=422(www),503(nrgweb),504(roy),407(mailman) Does this information help you? I am still clueless... Roy ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
