[Mailman-Users] postfix+mailman, part 2
Anne Ramey
anner at blast.com
Mon Apr 19 18:34:22 CEST 2004
It looks like your file permissions are good, but what user is actually
running mailman?
Anne
On Apr 16, 2004, at 7:55 AM, David Relson wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:01:09 +0530 (IST)
> Yogesh Subhash Talekar wrote:
>
>> okie .. i think you should:
>>
>> Add the line /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases to alias_maps and *remove*
>> it from virtual_alias_maps.
>>
>> Just make sure that you run:
>> /usr/bin/postmap on var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
>> And
>> /usr/sbin/postaliases on /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
>>
>> The problem is the user "test-subscribe" should be resolvable locally
>
> Lo Yogesh,
>
> Thanks for writing. After my post I did some more research and
> experimentation, which resulted in /etc/postfix/main.cf having the
> lines
> you suggest, i.e.:
>
> virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual,
> hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
>
>
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases,
> hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
>
> Postfix now has a different complaint, i.e
>
>
> <bogofilter-subscribe at mail.osagesoftware.com>: Command died with status
> 2:
> "/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe bogofilter". Command
> output: Group
> mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be
> executed as
> group "mailman", but the system's mail server executed the mail
> script as
> group "nogroup". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as
> group
> "mailman", or re-run configure, providing the command line option
> `--with-mail-gid=nogroup'.
>
> Checking user and group id's, I have:
>
> [root at nic mail]# ll /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman
> -rwxrwsr-x 1 mailman mailman 6248 Mar 14 16:46
> /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman*
>
> [root at nic mail]# grep mailman /etc/passwd /etc/group
> /etc/passwd:mailman:x:1200:1200::/home/mailman:/bin/false
> /etc/group:mailman:x:1200:
>
> AFAICT, the permissions are set properly. Do you know how to tweak the
> mail server (as suggested by mailman)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> David
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