
After a fruitless search of docs and archives, I've resorted to the list...
Installed Mailman on a pc running Mandrake 8 and qmail. Created my test list. It said "Hit enter to continue with notification of list owner," and I said yes. No mail ever arrived. From looking at the qmail log, no mail was ever sent. The best information I can get out of the instructions is that "the url for the admin page will be included in the email." Fat lot of help that is... So I'm wondering if bin/newlist is using the *aliases* created to try to send out that email, and NOT the address entered during creation of the list. If so, I think I might not have created the aliases correctly...
As I'm running qmail and not sendmail, my translation of the alias instructions is a little shaky. If I'm understanding this thing at all, the .qmail-[listname] alias file should contain this text: |home/mailman/mail/wrapper post [listname] And ditto for the other three aliases. 'Zat right? If not, how do I fix it? I've read the readme.qmail about fifteen times, and it's still about as clear as mud.
Thanks, =) Amanda

Thanks to those of you who responded with some ideas about the bizarre behaviour I was getting while trying to send the notification to the list owner... Turns out that hidden deep somewhere in the machine was still one more reference to the machine's *old* hostname, left over from someone or something who decided that it was better to hard-code the hostname in than let the apps pull it from the one central location... so mailman was spouting mail out to something that didn't exist. Ergh.
Next issue! :-) This is one of those things that might have been omitted from the documentation in the interest of not insulting the folks who know what they're doing, but I'm left utterly confused and hope someone can provide some clarification for me.
Created my new list, and the URLs given are for "hostname/admin/listname" and "hostname/listinfo/listname". There's no dirs called "admin" or "listinfo" in the mailman directories or the apache server root or document root directories. There *are* some html files in the mailmandir/lists/listname.
The net result is that going to http://hostname/ correctly gives me the (non-mailman) documents I created in the (current) document root. However, it is not (obviously) serving pages for the mailman list - and going to hostname/admin/listname or hostname/listinfo/listname gives a not found.
So is there something I'm supposed to configure in mailman to make it see the document root? Or is there something I'm supposed to configure in apache to make it see the mailman html docs? Or should I set the document root in apache to something in the mailman directories?
Thanks, =) Amanda

I'm trying to send messages to my test list and they're not going through. The log is giving the following:
Jun 4 16:49:58 tux Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 401. (Reconfigure to take 401?) Jun 4 16:49:58 tux qmail: 991698598.174168 delivery 5: deferral: Failure_to_exec_script._WANTED_gid_12,_GOT_gid_401.__(Reconfigure_to_take_401?)
The kicker is, there *is* no group with gid 401. So I'm a little baffled... What do I need to do to fix this?
Thanks, =) Amanda

On Jun 4, 17:06PM, Amanda wrote:
I'm trying to send messages to my test list and they're not going through. The log is giving the following:
Jun 4 16:49:58 tux Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 401. (Reconfigure to take 401?) Jun 4 16:49:58 tux qmail: 991698598.174168 delivery 5: deferral: Failure_to_exec_script._WANTED_gid_12,_GOT_gid_401.__(Reconfigure_to_take_401?)
The kicker is, there *is* no group with gid 401. So I'm a little baffled... What do I need to do to fix this?
Thanks, =) Amanda
Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
*warning, i'm right there with you on the learning curve*
That happened to me, too. I reconfigured with the setting --with-mail-gid=nofiles (which for me was the gid the server "GOT"), and everything worked out. (qmail on RH7.0)
Hope that leads you in the right direction,
Peter Horst
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