[Mailman-Users] install woes, please guide

[Jon Carnes]

Check out the FAQ, again.  Your mailman applications where installed to be 
run by the local MTA (sendmail, postfix, exim, whatever...), and the expected 
Group ID for the MTA is <some_number>.  Whatever is acting as your MTA is 
running as Group ID <some_other_number>

Look in /etc/group to see what Group name is associated with which GID #.

If your mail handling program is indeed running with GID of 
<some_other_number>, then you can simply re-run the install of mailman (from 
source) with a simple config option.

Another fix would be to reconfigure your MTA to run as GID <some_number>.  Be 
careful if you choose this option - you may need to adjust the group rights 
on a few files or end up with a broken MTA.

Jon Carnes

 --- Original Message: Sunday 17 March 2002 08:30 am ---
> hi i am strugling in getting mailman to work. i am running it on a
> slackware 8.0 system with exim 3.34.
>
> the install seemed to go fine, there was a strange message when i setup the
> test list, something about "getpass may echo passwords" apart from that its
> all goo. i can see the list web pages fine etc.
>
> but, when i try to send mails to the list i get the following:
>
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
>
> "A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>
>   mark1 at port7.co.uk
>     Child process of list_transport transport returned 2 from command:
>     /home/mailman/mail/wrapper"
>
> i have checked the FAQ several times and see no inspiration there. can
> someone point me in the right direction? i have had mailman working a few
> months back on another sytem and that was great.
>
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