[Mailman-Users] Mailman and exim

[Nigel Metheringham]

mpm at norwottuck.com said:
> I'm installing mailman (from tarball) on a debian woody system running
> exim.  I'm running into the "mail-gid" problem - exim complains that
> "Neither the  system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport
> set a uid for local  delivery of..." 

> I'm not a total exim newbie - I've mostly used sendmail. What gid
> should I use for this setup? Besides knowing that exim won't let you
> use  root, there's no guidance I can find for the group to use.  

Its the gid you specified on the ./configure line - ie if you did
 ./configure  --with-mail-gid=exim --with-cgi-gid=www

then the gid you want is "exim"

That then needs attaching to the aliases director, or alternative skip 
that stuff and go to
	http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman.html

	Nigel.

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