Problem sending & receiving list messages (Exim 4.1, MM2.1, Mac OS X server 10.2.3)
Folks:
I've just 'completed' (hmmm) an installation of mailman with Exim 4.1 on MacOS X Server 10.2.3 and although mailman is configured and runs ok, mail messages are not getting from exim into Mailman.
The error message(s) I get in Exim are:
2003-01-12 23:41:13 H8MK2L-0004F3-00 unable to set gid=1025 or uid=1027 (euid=25): local delivery to test-list <test-list@neonnumbers.com> transport=mailman_transport 2003-01-12 23:41:13 H8MK2L-0004F3-00 failed to read delivery status for test-list@neonnumbers.com from delivery subprocess
The gid and uid numbers are the mailman group and user respectively.
Mailman is installed in a virtual host configuration with a separate copy of Mailman for each domain within the Mailman user directory, e.g.:
/Users/mailman/neonnumbers.com contains the Mailman installation for neonnumbers.com /Users/mailman/other-domain.com contains the Mailman installation for other-domain.com Etc
The config for Exim is from the 'how-to' docs and is a router as follows:
### Router forMailman mail lists ###
mailman_router:
driver = accept
require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/${domain}/lists/$local_part/config.pck
local_part_suffix_optional
local_part_suffix = -bounces : -bounces+* :
-confirm+* : -join : -leave :
-owner : -request : -admin
transport = mailman_transport
Which I think is working fine. The problem seems to be in the transport configuration:
## Transport for Mailman ####
mailman_transport:
driver = pipe
command = MAILMAN_HOME/${domain}/mail/mailman
'${if def:local_part_suffix
{${sg{$local_part_suffix}{-(\\w+)(\\+.*)?}{\$1}}}
{post}}'
$local_part
current_directory = MAILMAN_HOME/${domain}
home_directory = MAILMAN_HOME/${domain}
user = MAILMAN_USER
group = MAILMAN_GROUP
(where MAILMAN_HOME is /User/mailman and the MAILMAN_USER and MAILMAN_GROUP are 'mailman')
I have checked all the configuration with respect to Mailman and all seems fine (e.g. Check_perms reports all is well).
This looks like it's a permissions thing either in mailman or Exim, but I'm a bit stumped thus far - any help or guidance appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
..Iain
Iain Donaldson iain@neonnumbers.com
Since you are running a virtual setup with multiple copies, did you install each copy to run as "mailman" or did you follow the recommended process of giving each install a unique user (like mailman002, mailman003, etc)?
Another item to look at, are the installs running in a chrooted environment, and if so, do the users and groups exist within that chrooted environment?
Good Luck - Jon Carnes
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:00, Iain Donaldson wrote:
Folks:
Turns out this problem was an incorrect setuid preference on the exim binary. Applying 'chmod u+s' to the exim binary solved the problem.
Schoolboy error, it would appear!
Cheers
..Iain
Since you are running a virtual setup with multiple copies, did you install each copy to run as "mailman" or did you follow the recommended process of giving each install a unique user (like mailman002, mailman003, etc)?
Another item to look at, are the installs running in a chrooted environment, and if so, do the users and groups exist within that chrooted environment?
Good Luck - Jon Carnes
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:00, Iain Donaldson wrote:
Folks:
Turns out this problem was an incorrect setuid preference on the exim binary. Applying 'chmod u+s' to the exim binary solved the problem.
Schoolboy error, it would appear!
Cheers
..Iain
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