[Mailman-Users] Is this a mailman or postfix error?

[Mark Sapiro]

roy vinner wrote:
>
>I've also discovered that if I run an alias expansion from the command line
>
>aliases:
>..............................................
># STANZA START: try
># CREATED: Mon Jul 25 17:19:03 2005
>try:             "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post try"
>try-admin:       "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin try"
>try-bounces:     "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces try"
>try-confirm:     "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm try"
>try-join:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join try"
>try-leave:       "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave try"
>try-owner:       "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner try"
>try-request:     "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request try"
>try-subscribe:   "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe try"
>try-unsubscribe: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe try"
># STANZA END: try
>..........
>
>[mailman at nrg mailman-2.1.6]$ /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request try
>Failure to find group name mailman.  Try adding this group
>to your system, or re-run configure, providing an
>existing group name with the command line option --with-mail-gid.


Running this from the command line is not necessarily a valid test. The
wrapper (/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman) exects to be run by the MTA
with the group that was configured by ./configure. This is almost
always not the 'mailman' group. See
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.016.htp



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