[Mailman-Users] mail -r?

[John Dennis]

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 15:50 -0500, Matthew A. Marshall wrote:
> Hello. I've just converted from mailman 2.0.x to mailman 2.1.x.  After 
> sending the confirmation back to the list-request email address, I 
> receive this error:
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> mail: invalid option -- r
> Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ...
>             [- sendmail-options ...]
>        mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
>        mail [-iInNv] [-u user]
> 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1

Who is giving you this error? When you reply in your MUA?

> Also, if I attempt to run the mailman command from the command-line I 
> receive this:
> 
> Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be
> executed as one of the following groups:
> [mail, postfix, mailman, nobody],
> but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group: "root".
> Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as one of these groups:
> [mail, postfix, mailman, nobody],
> or re-run configure providing the command line option:
> '--with-mail-gid=root'.
> 
> The mailman command is chgrp'd to mailman with the group sticky bit enabled.

Thats because "mailman" is a wrapper script meant to be executed by your
MTA, its not a command line program (e.g. what's in the mailman bin
directory). Mailman is guarding against anybody else executing what is
supposed to be a private command only to executed by an MTA. The list
presented to you in the error is a common list of of uid's that have the
permission to execute the command. You will need to either logon as one
of them or su to one of them.

P.S. I assume the only reason you're attempting to execute the mailman
command, is for testing purposes, one would never normally do this.
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>