[Mailman-Users] more help with mailman configure and GID

[Mark Sapiro]

Christopher Adams wrote:

>Okay, another migration, another GID problem. I configured mailman to
>run as mail GID=mailman (which is 502) and cgi-gid = apache (which is
>48). The configuration and installation went fine and check_perms
>showed no problems.
>
>Setting up lists works okay. However, when I try to send a mesage to
>the list, I get this:
>
> test7 at myserver.com on 8/29/2007 11:36 AM
>            Failed (Command died with status 8:
>"/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post test7". Command output: Failure
>to    find group name for GID 1004.  Mailman expected the mail wrapper
>to be    executed as group "mailman", but the system's mail server
>executed the    wrapper as GID 1004 for which the name could not be
>found.  Try adding GID    1004 to your system as "mailman", or tweak
>your mail server to run the    wrapper as group "mailman".)
>
>Why is it looking at mailman GID=1004 when it is 502? Mailman UID is
>1004, but not GID.  I tried reconfiguring it with mail GID = nobody,
>which I have done before, but still get this message.


The message above is telling you that the mail wrapper is expecting to
be invoked as group 'mailman' (which you already know because you told
it to expect that when you configured with --with-mail-gid=mailman),
but the MTA is executing the pipe to Mailman as GID 1004.

rerunning configure with --with-mail-gid=1004 may fix this or you could
try to change whatever is required in your MTA or its Mailman aliases
to make it run the pipe to Mailman as group Mailman.

See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.016.htp>.

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