[Mailman-Users] Group Mismatch Error

[Jay Chandler]

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Jay Chandler wrote:
>   
>> Postfix (latest stable), FreeBSD 6.2, latest version of Mailman.
>>
>> Attempted to send a test message to my list.
>>
>> ommand died with status 2: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post
>>    netoplist". Command output: Group mismatch error.  Mailman expected the
>>    mail wrapper script to be executed as group "nobody", but the system's mail
>>    server executed the mail script as group "mailman".  Try tweaking the mail
>>    server to run the script as group "nobody", or re-run configure,  providing
>>    the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'.
>>
>>
>> Yet...
>> mybox# ll
>> total 38
>> -rw-r-----  1 root     mailman     41 Jan 26 13:33 adm.pw
>> -rw-rw----  1 mailman  mailman   1995 Jan 26 13:36 aliases
>> -rw-rw----  1 mailman  mailman  16384 Jan 26 13:36 aliases.db
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root     mailman     10 Jan  8 10:32 last_mailman_version
>> -rw-rw----  1 mailman  mailman      6 Jan 26 11:13 master-qrunner.pid
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root     mailman  14114 Jan  8 10:32 sitelist.cfg
>>
>> Is there something blindingly obvious that I'm missing?
>>     
>
>
> Maybe. Where did the netoptlist alias come from. Did Postfix find the
> alias somewhere else (maybe /etc/aliases*) either before or instead of
> Mailman's data/aliases*?
>
>   
Nope-- I created that myself as a test list.

The other aliases file is owned by root:wheel.

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Jay Chandler
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