[Mailman-Users] Group mismatch error
David Relson
relson at osagesoftware.com
Wed May 19 22:29:41 CEST 2004
On Wed, 19 May 2004 14:22:45 -0500
David Blomquist wrote:
> I am getting the following error message but my mail server (Postfix)
> is not set up as group "apache". Anybody have an idea why I am getting
> this error message?
>
>
> This is the Postfix program at host 'my.mail.host.
>
> I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
> below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
>
> For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>
>
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> delete your own text from the message returned below.
>
> The Postfix program
>
> <mb_two-request at my.mail.host.com>: Command died with status 2:
> "/var/mailman/mail/mailman request mb_two". Command output: Group
> mismatch
> error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as
> one of
> the following groups: [mail, nobody, mailman], but the system's
> mail
> server
> executed the mail script as group: "apache". Try tweaking the mail
> server
> to run the script as one of these groups: [mail, nobody, mailman],
> or
> re-run configure providing the command line option:
> '--with-mail-gid=apache'.
Sounds familiar! Check the ownership of the aliases file, i.e.
/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases. If recollection serves, postfix sets the
gid to match that file when it invokes mailman.
HTH,
David
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