[Mailman-Users] Unkown mailer errors

[Christopher T. Griffiths]

You need to set the DefaultUser=daemon in the sendmail.cf file.

Also you need to configure mailman with --mail-gid=daemon.

After that everything works great.

I am using FreeBSD 3.2 with mailman 1.0 and things are excellent.

Chris

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Javier Henderson wrote:

> 	I installed Mailman 1.0rc3 under FreeBSD 2.2.8. I'm also running
> sendmail 8.9.3.
> 
> 	I created the test list, and received the message telling me
> about the new list being created just fine. The web pages seem to work
> OK as well.
> 
> 	However, if I try to subscribe to the test list I get:
> 
> 
> 
> --begin included text
> 
> The original message was received at Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:16:51 -0700 (PDT)
> from bogon.kjsl.com [206.55.236.201]
>  
>     ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>  "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test-mailman"
>      (expanded from: <test-mailman-request at mate.kjsl.com>)
>  
>     ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>  554 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test-mailman"... unknown mailer error 2
>  Reporting-MTA: dns; mate.kjsl.com
>  Received-From-MTA: DNS; bogon.kjsl.com
>  Arrival-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:16:51 -0700 (PDT)
>  
>  Final-Recipient: RFC822; <test-mailman-request at mate.kjsl.com>
>  X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test-mailman at mate.kjsl.com
>  Action: failed
>  Status: 5.0.0
>  Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:16:52 -0700 (PDT)
>  Return-Path: <javier at bogon.kjsl.com>
>  Received: from bogon.kjsl.com (bogon.kjsl.com [206.55.236.201])
>  	by mate.kjsl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA19095
>  	for <test-mailman-request at mate.kjsl.com>; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:16:51 -0700 (PDT)
>  Received: (from javier at localhost)
>  	by bogon.kjsl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA18095;
>  	Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:16:50 -0700 (PDT)
>  From: Javier Henderson <javier at KJSL.COM>
>  MIME-Version: 1.0
>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>  Message-ID: <14266.60034.564149.361762 at bogon.kjsl.com>
>  Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:16:50 -0700 (PDT)
>  To: test-mailman-request at mate.kjsl.com
>  X-Mailer: VM 6.63 under Emacs 19.34.1
>  X-Airplane-of-the-day: Grumman Tiger
>  
>  help
> 
> --end included text
> 
> 
> 
> 	I'm guessing it's a permissions issue somewhere, but:
> 
> > bin/check_perms
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "bin/check_perms", line 160, in ?
>     checkall()
>   File "bin/check_perms", line 76, in checkall
>     os.path.walk(mm_cfg.PREFIX, checkwalk, STATE)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/posixpath.py", line 253, in walk
>     walk(name, func, arg)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/posixpath.py", line 253, in walk
>     walk(name, func, arg)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/posixpath.py", line 247, in walk
>     func(arg, top, names)
>   File "bin/check_perms", line 52, in checkwalk
>     except OSError, (code, msg):
> NameError: OSError
> 
> 
> 	At any rate, I did do the chmod commands listed in the INSTALL
> file, and the file permissions are drwxrwsr-x within the ~mailman
> directory.
> 
> 	Thanks.
> 
> -jav
> 
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Christopher T. Griffiths	        
Senior Network/Systems Administrator
Quansoo Group Inc.
cgriffiths at quansoo.com
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