i cannot get mailman to work
I installed mailman before I ever got postfix to work... then today I got postfix to work right (yeah! -- full blown mail server of my own!) and now I want to make mailman work.
I have installed it properly, however, I am concerned about the fact that I was using sendmail when I installed mailman, then I removed sendmail and installed postfix, then tried to get mailman to work again. By the way, I never did get sendmail to work in the first place.
SO, I can create a group, I can access the web-admin to administer the group. I can add people to the group, but it doesn't send out confirmation e-mails and it just doesn't seem to send out any e-mails. When I try to e-mail the group I just created, it gets passed back to me because I obviously have something wrong in my aliases file. My first group name is: mailman-users and my domain name is: twmtest.com, so mailman-users@twmtest.com is the main list e-mail address. Here is what is in my aliases file:
mailman-users: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post mailman-users" mailman-users-admin: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner mailman-users" mailman-users-request: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd mailman-users" mailman-users-owner: mailman-users-admin
<mailman-users@twmtest.com>: Command died with status 2: "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post mailman-users". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?)
Ok, what is going on here? how do I find out who gid 12 and 99 are or what they are? I am a newbie to linux (yes, after all these years, I'm still clumbsy with it - but not afraid of it anymore!)
Any suggestions?
Dave Koopman dave@twmtest.com (yeah, my new e-mail) dave@thewebmark.com (boring, my old e-mail)
David Koopman wrote:
By the way, I never did get sendmail to work in the first place.
Odd, I had zero problems with sendmail.<mailman-users@twmtest.com>: Command died with status 2: "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post mailman-users". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?)
NOTE: the following explanation is assuming you're on a RedHat system)
Yeah, I can tell you to go read the INSTALL file, or check the listarchives, but then, a lot of other people will also do the same.
The problem here is that mailman _expected_ a user whose GID (Group ID) was- On a RedHat system, that would be the 'mail' group. But, the user that's actually running your mail stuff has a completely different GID, namely 99 (which is the group 'nobody').
Here's my guess: your mail program (postfix) is being run with thenobody.nobody permissions. (again, on a RedHat system, sendmail will, by default, run with the mail.mail permission set).
Mailman will dutifully report the problem as you noticed, and will give youa hint on how to fix it: Reconfigure to take 99. This cryptic message translates to: you'll have to reconfigure and rebuild Mailman with GID 99, NOT 12.
Check the INSTALL file for the '--with-mail-gid=' option for the configurecommand.
Hope this helps.
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