[Mailman-Users] the "shunt" mail queue
JOSEPH DAMICO
damico.1 at osu.edu
Thu Oct 27 19:39:01 CEST 2005
Many thanks, Mark.
I had run check_perms earlier (when I installed), but must have messed up a few permissions since then. This fixed eveything.
Excellent suggestion!
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>
Date: Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:52 am
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] the "shunt" mail queue
> JOSEPH DAMICO wrote:
> >
> >I sent a message to a mailman list on my server. The message was
> not delivered. At first, I got a mesage indicating that sendmail
> was not running with group=mailman. So I stopped and started
> sendmail with group=mailman. This allowed the mail to get as far
> as the "in" queue but could go no farther. Permission errors
> during processing clued me into the idea of stopping and re-
> starting sendmail with user=mailman and group=mailman. Now, I see
> no error messages, but the notes I post to the list are ending up
> in the "shunt" queue.
> >
>
>
> Actually, running from the group that the wrapper expects should be
> sufficient. The fact that it wasn't indicates you still have
> permission problems in your Mailman hierarchy. Run
>
> bin/check_perms
>
> as root. If there are errors, run
>
> bin/check_perms -f
>
> until they're gone.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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