[Mailman-Users] Failure to find group name mailnull.

Colin Harford charford-list at infinithost.com
Wed May 21 07:05:28 CEST 2003


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    pipe to |/mail/mailman/mail/mailman post testing
      generated by testing at mailman.infinithost.com
      local delivery failed

The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:

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         generated by testing at mailman.infinithost.com ------

Failure to find group name mailnull.  Try adding this group
to your system, or re-run configure, providing an
existing group name with the command line option --with-mail-gid.


OS: FreeBSD 5, MailMan 2.1.1, Exim 4.14


Mailman installed with:

./configure --with-mail-gid=mailnull --with-cgi-gid=www -
- - --with-mailhost=mailman.infinithost.com --prefix=/mail/mailman

In /etc/group:

mailnull:*92:mailman



In exim 4: (this is based on a mailman configuration for a previous
exim4 installation).

# home dir for mailman
MAILMAN_HOME=/mail/mailman
# wrapper script for mailman
MAILMAN_WRAP=MAILMAN_HOME/mail/wrapper
# user and group for mailman
MAILMAN_UID=exim
MAILMAN_GID=mailnull


# vol 020528 mailman router
list_owner_router:
    driver = redirect
    local_part_suffix = "-owner"
    require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc::$local_part}/config.db
    data = "${lc:$local_part}-admin@${domain}"

owner_list_router:
    driver = redirect
    local_part_prefix = "owner-"
    require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc::$local_part}/config.db
    data = "${lc:$local_part}-admin@${domain}"

list_admin_router:
    driver = redirect
    local_part_suffix = -admin
    require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc::$local_part}/config.db
    pipe_transport = list_admin_transport
    data = "|MAILMAN_WRAP mailowner ${lc:$local_part}"

list_request_router:
    driver = redirect
    local_part_suffix = -request
    require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc::$local_part}/config.db
    pipe_transport = list_request_transport
    data = "|MAILMAN_WRAP mailcmd ${lc:$local_part}"

list_router:
    driver = redirect
    require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc::$local_part}/config.db
    pipe_transport = list_transport
    data = "|MAILMAN_WRAP post ${lc:$local_part}"
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