[Mailman-Users] need help with configuration

[Bob]

Hi

I sent a help request several hours ago, but have since, in my own 
efforts to understand and fix, un-installed and re-installed mailman. 
This is where I am at now.

I am running mailman 2.1.4-5 on a Debian system with Exim4. This is with 
the split configuration files instead of the single configuration file 
for exim. I have created a list (test) and that worked. I have added 
users to the list and that worked. I then sent an email to the list 
(test at livingsky.net) and that didn't work. It seems that mailman is 
expecting for the group to be daemon and the group that exim is set-up 
for is Debian-exim. Since this is a Debian installation, I have no 
control over setting the default user and group that mailman sets up 
with (--with-mail-gid=). Is there any way to fix this? This is the 
bounce that I get from exim/mailman when I send the test message

>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:
>
>  pipe to |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post test
>    generated by test at livingsky.net
>    local delivery failed
>
>The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:
>
>------ pipe to |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post test
>       generated by test at livingsky.net ------
>
>Group mismatch error.  Mailman expected the mail
>wrapper script to be executed as group "daemon", but
>the system's mail server executed the mail script as
>group "Debian-exim".  Try tweaking the mail server to run the
>script as group "daemon", or re-run configure, 
>providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=Debian-exim'.
>
Please note that I am a relatively new user to linux. I am not a 
programmer or trained systems expert, so simple explanations would be 
appreciated.

-- 
Bob Lydiate
fish at livingsky.net
Please visit my site at 
http://www.livingsky.net

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