[Mailman-Users] mailman stopped working after upgrade

[Daevid Vincent]

> >Mark said, "Yes, it has the flags, but what is the value of 
> the ${MAILGID}
> >parameter?  The error message you received says it's 
> 'mailman' and should be
> >'mail'." 
> >
> >And looking at the log, he seems to be correct:
> >Sep 12 12:16:19 [Mailman mail-wrapper] Group mismatch error.  Mailman
> >expected the mail_wrapper script to be executed as group 
> "mailman", but_the
> >system's mail server executed the mail script as_group 
> "mail".  Try tweaking
> >the mail server to run the_script as group "mailman", or 
> re-run configure,
> >_providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mail'._
> >
> >But the .ebuild script sets it to gid 280, shouldn't it be 
> 8? why is that?
> >Is that the problem? How can I fix that. Re-emerging doesn't 
> let me change
> >those .ebuild values. MD5 errors and such.
> >
> >APACHEGID="81"
> >MAILGID="280"
> >
> >src_compile() {
> >        econf \
> >                --prefix=${INSTALLDIR} \
> >                --with-mail-gid=${MAILGID} \
> >                --with-cgi-gid=${APACHEGID} \
> >        || die "configure failed"
> >
> >        make || die "make failed"
> >}  
> >
> ># ll /etc/exim/exim.conf
> >-rw-r--r--  1 root root 29452 Apr 29 13:54 /etc/exim/exim.conf
> >
> >  # User and group for Mailman, should match your --with-mail-gid
> >  # switch to Mailman's configure script.
> >  # Value is normally "mailman"
> >  MM_UID=mailman
> >  MM_GID=mailman
> >
> >So, these match what the comment says there, and what the 
> .ebuild is doing.
> >
> >I'm so confused. *sigh* 
> 
> 
> As well you should be at this point. The wrapper is telling 
> you that it
> expects to be executed as group 'mailman', and it looks from what
> you've presented that it was in fact built that way. It also seems you
> can't change it in your update package.
> 
> The wrapper also complains that it is not being executed as group
> 'mailman', but rather as group 'mail'. This is the confusing part
> because it seems from the above that you are telling Exim to invoke
> the wrapper as group 'mailman' yet the wrapper is telling you it is
> being invoked as group 'mail'. I would look carefully at the Exim
> configuration to be sure that
> 
>   MM_UID=mailman
>   MM_GID=mailman
> 
> are in the right place and are not being overridden somewhere else.

Below is portions of my /etc/exim/exim.conf. I deleted out any irrellevant
parts, but I kept everything in the right order... I believe it's pretty
much stock. (I don't know much about exim).

># cat /etc/exim/exim.conf

######################################################################
#                  Runtime configuration file for Exim               #
######################################################################


#
# copied from http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html#exconf
#
  # Home dir for your Mailman installation -- aka Mailman's prefix
directory.
  # By default this is set to "/usr/local/mailman"
  # On a Red Hat/Fedora system using the RPM use "/var/mailman"
  # On Debian using the deb package use "/var/lib/mailman"
  # This is normally the same as ~mailman
  MM_HOME=/usr/local/mailman
  #
  # User and group for Mailman, should match your --with-mail-gid
  # switch to Mailman's configure script.
  # Value is normally "mailman"
  MM_UID=mailman
  MM_GID=mailman
  #
  # Domains that your lists are in - colon separated list
  # you may wish to add these into local_domains as well
  domainlist
mm_domains=daevid.com:rollinballzcrew.com:me-racing.com:marq.org
  #
  # -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
  #
  # These values are derived from the ones above and should not need
  # editing unless you have munged your mailman installation
  #
  # The path of the Mailman mail wrapper script
  MM_WRAP=MM_HOME/mail/mailman
  #
  # The path of the list config file (used as a required file when
  # verifying list addresses)
  MM_LISTCHK=MM_HOME/lists/${lc::$local_part}/config.pck


######################################################################
#                    MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS                     #
######################################################################

exim_user = mail

######################################################################
#                      ROUTERS CONFIGURATION                         #
#               Specifies how addresses are handled                  #
######################################################################
#     THE ORDER IN WHICH THE ROUTERS ARE DEFINED IS IMPORTANT!       #
# An address is passed to each router in turn until it is accepted.  #
######################################################################

mailman_router:
    driver = accept
    domains = +mm_domains
    require_files = MM_LISTCHK
    local_part_suffix_optional
    local_part_suffix = -admin : \
        -bounces   : -bounces+* : \
        -confirm   : -confirm+* : \
        -join      : -leave : \
        -owner     : -request : \
        -subscribe : -unsubscribe
    transport = mailman_transport

procmail:
  debug_print = "R: procmail for $local_part@$domain"
  driver = accept
  check_local_user
  transport = procmail_pipe
  require_files = ${local_part}:${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
  no_verify
  no_expn

userforward:
  driver = redirect
  check_local_user
# local_part_suffix = +* : -*
# local_part_suffix_optional
  file = $home/.forward
# allow_filter
  no_verify
  no_expn
  check_ancestor
  file_transport = address_file
  pipe_transport = address_pipe
  reply_transport = address_reply

localuser:
  driver = accept
  check_local_user
# local_part_suffix = +* : -*
# local_part_suffix_optional
  transport = local_delivery
  cannot_route_message = Unknown user


######################################################################
#                      TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION                      #
######################################################################
#                       ORDER DOES NOT MATTER                        #
#     Only one appropriate transport is called for each delivery.    #
######################################################################

mailman_transport:
    driver = pipe
    command = MM_WRAP \
              '${if def:local_part_suffix \
                    {${sg{$local_part_suffix}{-(\\w+)(\\+.*)?}{\$1}}} \
                    {post}}' \
              $local_part
    current_directory = MM_HOME
    home_directory = MM_HOME
    user = MM_UID
    group = MM_GID

# End of Exim configuration file