I am recently having trouble posting messages to Ibiblio from my AT&T mail account. There have been issues lately with AOL and Yahoo changing their headers, but I was not affected by this.
My email postings to Ibiblio are being rejected with the following error:
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The mail system<midfex@lists.ibiblio.org>: Command died with status 2: "/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post midfex". 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". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=nobody'.
Reporting-MTA: dns; lists.ibiblio.org X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 0CFE6235EE X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822;sherwindu@att.net Arrival-Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 02:48:43 -0400 (EDT)
Final-Recipient: rfc822;midfex@lists.ibiblio.org Action: failed Status: 5.3.0 Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; 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". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=nobody'.
How can this be fixed?
Sherwin Dubren
sherwin writes:
<midfex@lists.ibiblio.org>: Command died with status 2: "/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post midfex". 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". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=nobody'.
I would bet a week's worth of beer that the Mailman installation has been upgraded recently, and they forgot to give the wrapper program sgid privilege and/or forgot to give it group "mailman".
It's also possible that the actual problem is with the mail server, but usually mail servers are not given sufficient permissions to run other programs as arbitrary users or groups.
To fix it, run the bin/check_perms program in the Mailman installation to see if I'm correct. If I am, run "bin/check_perms -f" to actually make the necessary changes.
Of course you need to have root permission on the Mailman host to do this.
On May 9, 2014, at 2:08 AM, sherwin <sherwindu@att.net> wrote:
I am recently having trouble posting messages to Ibiblio from my AT&T mail account. There have been issues lately with AOL and Yahoo changing their headers, but I was not affected by this.
My email postings to Ibiblio are being rejected with the following error:
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<midfex@lists.ibiblio.org>: Command died with status 2: "/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post midfex". 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". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=nobody'.
How can this be fixed?
I assume you are just a user of a list at ibiblio.org? If so, you can’t fix it. Ibiblio.org has Mailman installed incorrectly. They need to install it correctly. This problem affects all lists managed by this Mailman installation so I assume you have also not been receiving any postings from this list.
-- Larry Stone lstone19@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/
Le 09/05/2014 13:36, Larry Stone a écrit :
I assume you are just a user of a list at ibiblio.org? If so, you can’t fix it. Ibiblio.org has Mailman installed incorrectly. They need to install it correctly. This problem affects all lists managed by this Mailman installation so I assume you have also not been receiving any postings from this list.
ibiblio admins use to be very reactive, open a ticket...
jdd
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