On 18-May-2009, at 08:35, Mark Sapiro wrote:
In order to provide some security against just anyone with shell access
being able to run the wrapper from the command line, upon invocation
the wrapper checks the original group with which the MTA invoked the
wrapper, and if it is not the group the wrapper expects, the wrapper
issues the group mismatch error. This is all explained in more detail
in the FAQ.

Yes, but the MTA did not change. Recompiling mailman via ports with the same options it had been compiled with before failed (WITH_MAIL_GID=mailman). Restoring from backup (which files are gid mailman) worked. Same permissions on the mailman executable:

14 -rwxr-sr-x  1 root  mailman  13661 Jun  8  2007 mail/mailman


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