Heyas all,
I'm having problems getting Mailman up and running. All mail that is sent to my mailing list is bouncing back with "unknown mailer error 2". I think the aliases are having problems expanding.
Problems are occuring on a Linux box, sendmail is 8.9.3, python is 1.5.2, mailman is current release.
I will refer to the list as 'mylist'. Mail going to mylist@myhost.com is bouncing to mylist-admin@myhost.com with mailer error 2. Mail fails sending to mylist-admin@myhost.com with mailer error 2 as well, and error messages are sent to postmaster.
Direct quote: '554 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner mylist"... unknown mailer error 2'
[From /etc/aliases] mylist: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post mylist" mylist-admin: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner mylist" mylist-request: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd mylist" owner-mylist: mcarr mylist-owner: mcarr [End From]
[From sendmail.cf] Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsD, A=sh -c $u [End From]
Help would be appreciated
-- -Mike
Two things to check:
Make sure you have the /home/mailman/mail/wrapper program symlinked to /etc/smrsh. You need to do this if you are running sendmail. Postfix does not appear to need this.
As root run tail -f /var/log/maillog then send a message to your list. If you see errors like: Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 100, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?) it means you compiled Mailman with the wrong options. Rerun the config script as ./configure --with-mail-gid=XX then make then make install (back things up first of course.)
-- Scott
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:36:32AM -0800, Mike Carr wrote:
Heyas all,
I'm having problems getting Mailman up and running. All mail that is sent to my mailing list is bouncing back with "unknown mailer error 2". I think the aliases are having problems expanding.
Problems are occuring on a Linux box, sendmail is 8.9.3, python is 1.5.2, mailman is current release.
I will refer to the list as 'mylist'. Mail going to mylist@myhost.com is bouncing to mylist-admin@myhost.com with mailer error 2. Mail fails sending to mylist-admin@myhost.com with mailer error 2 as well, and error messages are sent to postmaster.
Direct quote: '554 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner mylist"... unknown mailer error 2'
[From /etc/aliases] mylist: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post mylist" mylist-admin: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner mylist" mylist-request: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd mylist" owner-mylist: mcarr mylist-owner: mcarr [End From]
[From sendmail.cf] Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsD, A=sh -c $u [End From]
Help would be appreciated
-- -Mike
Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
-- Regards, Scott Russell (scottrus@raleigh.ibm.com) Linux Technology Center, System Admin Red Hat Certified Engineer
Quoting Scott Russell (scottrus@raleigh.ibm.com):
Two things to check:
- Make sure you have the /home/mailman/mail/wrapper program symlinked to /etc/smrsh. You need to do this if you are running sendmail. Postfix does not appear to need this.
No, he doesn't need to do this. Note his snippet from sendmail.cf - he's using /bin/sh instead of smrsh as his prog delivery agent.
[From sendmail.cf] Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsD, A=sh -c $u [End From]
-- Paul Tomblin, not speaking for anybody.
'Usenet "belongs" to those who administer the hosts of which it is comprised'
- RFC 1036, draft revision
- As root run tail -f /var/log/maillog then send a message to your list. If you see errors like: Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 100, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?) it means you compiled Mailman with the wrong options. Rerun the config script as ./configure --with-mail-gid=XX then make then make install (back things up first of course.)
Yup, that was it. Thanks for your help Scott, much obliged.
-- -Mike
I didn't find it so I suspect that the answer is no, but ...
Can Mailman be set up so that people can retrieve their messages from the host that Mailman runs on, via a Web browser?
Thanks, Pete
Hi Pete,
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Pete Holsberg wrote:
I didn't find it so I suspect that the answer is no, but ... Can Mailman be set up so that people can retrieve their messages from the host that Mailman runs on, via a Web browser?
Not explicitly. I mean they can browse through the webified archivesto read the messages, but there isn't a mechanism specifically for reading and posting. (there may never be) Are you trying to setup an online community sort-of thing?
If you just need general webified mail access, you may want to lookinto a package like IMP (http://horde.org/imp/). It's a IMAP-based mail reader for the web. Works pretty well on our campus. YMMV.
~ Rick ~-- .oooO "Man with closed Oooo. Rick C. Niess ( ) mouth gathers ( ) University of Southern Miss. \ ( no foot!" ) / resnet@usm.edu --\ )------------------(_/-------------------------------
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