I have had mailman running for many years now, and have updated it
semi regularly over the years (currently 2.1.9).
A few days ago, I tried to post a message to a list I host and got:
Command died with
status 4: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post listname". Command
output:
No such file or directory
I went in and tried to look at the install, but everything appeared to
be fine. So I tried to reinstall via portupgrade mailman.
After the upgrade completed, I got this error:
Command died with
status 2: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post gfamily". Command
output:
Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to
be
executed as group "mailman", but the system's mail server executed
the mail
script as group "nobody".
This is odd since my current install of mailman has permissions like
this:
So I tried
$ export MM_USERNAME=nobody
$ export MM_GROUPNAME=nobody
$ export MM_USERID=65534
and made sure that in pkgtools.conf I had
'mail/mailman' => 'WITH_MAIL_GID=nobody',
and ran the port install again, only to get the same error. At each
step I ran bin/check_perms and nothing was wrong.
Finally I just went into my backups and restored /usr/local/mailman
with a cp -rp and now everything works (except ports thinks I have
version 2.1.11)
So, for future reference, what SHOULD I have done? And does anyone
know how to tell ports I have 2.1.9 instead of 2.1.11?
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