[Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman with EIMS Mail Server - OS X

[Jon Carnes]

I've never heard of EIMS but if it is Sendmail compliant then it should work
with Mailman.

Check to make sure that EIMS answers an SMTP call to localhost:
  telnet localhost 25

If that command just stares back at your blankly and doesn't respond, then
your MTA (EIMS) is not listening on localhost for mail delivery.  If it
responds back then you might be in good shape.

Now look for how to setup Aliases in EIMS, specifically Aliases that will
run an executable.  EIMS will need to know that when mail for
mylist at localhost comes in, that it needs to be delivered to the Mailman
wrapper program.
Aside: when you create a list using the ~mailman/bin/newlist command, it
will print out a list of aliases that need to be setup in your MTA.

If that is working, then you need to make sure that Mailman is setup
correctly to interpret what system Group ID EIMS is running as (some MTA's
run as root, some as "mail", others don't use a GID).
Mailman has some built in security that checks the GID for anyone calling
the wrapper program.  The wrapper executable will only run if it is being
run by someone (or something) with the proper Group ID.  If this is a
problem you will usually find an error in the MTA's log files indicating
that "wrapper" refused to run and gave an error that the GID was incorrect.

Hope that shines some light onto your quest.  Good Luck - Jon Carnes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Suhr" <deansuhr at carpedis.com>
To: "Mailman" <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:53 PM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman with EIMS Mail Server - OS X


> I'm a UNIX newbie so please go easy on me ...
>
> I have installed Mailman and it is running.  Likewise - I was able to get
> SendMail turned off and have EIMS now running on my OS X machine (10.2.4).
>
> Can anyone give me a quick hint as to how I get the two of these products
to
> communicate with each other on the same server?  I presume that I will
need
> to route mail from EIMS to Mailman - but what is the destination IP/Port?
>
> Likewise - MailMan is not sending messages out so I presume it needs to
> connect to EIMS somehow.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Dean
>
>
>
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