[Mailman-Users] Group mismatch error..on Freebsd 7.2 p3 amd64

[David Southwell]

> David Southwell wrote:
> >Despite scouring the web and trying the many different solutions that seem
> > to be offered to this problem I have be unable to fix it. Is there a way
> > of tracing the cause in my particular instance?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >The entry in maillog does not say how to tweak postfix!
> 
> No, but Postfix's 'man 8 local' manpage does in the 'DELIVERY RIGHTS'
> paragraph.
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> >dns1# ls -l ./data
> >total 58
> >-rw-r-----  1 mailman  mailman     41 Dec 19 17:46 adm.pw
> >-rw-rw----  1 mailman  mailman   3760 Dec 28 09:40 aliases
> >-rw-rw----  1 mailman  mailman  16384 Dec 28 09:40 aliases.db
> 
> The ownership of the above aliases.db file is what controls the group
> with which Postfix invokes the mail wrapper. Postfix runs the wrapper
> with user:group of the owner of that file. I.e. group 'mailman', but
> not because the file is group 'mailman'; rather because the owner of
> the file is 'mailman' and 'mailman's primary group is 'mailman'.
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> >I tried to get the mail script changed to run --with-mail-gid=nobody but
> >either I did not issue the command correctly or if I did it made no
> >difference.! If someone could post the comand line that works on a freebsd
> > 7.2 system which they know to be correct I will try that again.
> 
> --with-mail-gid=nobody is wrong in the first place. it would be
> --with-mail-gid=mailman in your case, but this is not an option to the
> mail wrapper. It is an option to configure in the configure/make/make
> install process to build and install Mailman.
> 
> If you are running a FreeBSD package, you aren't doing this process, so
> --with-mail-gid=mailman is not applicable in your case. The FreeBSD
> package probably has a way to set this, but how is a FreeBSD package
> question that I can't answer. However, from the below, it appears that
> the wrapper already expects group 'mailman' which should be correct.
> 
> >Extract from maillog:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >Dec 28 09:25:41 dns1 postfix/local[44511]: 1278934D451:
> >to=<bps_comps_print_announce at vizion2000.net>, relay=local, delay=0.08,
> >delays=0.06/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (Command died with
> > status 2: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post
> > bps_comps_print_announce". Command output: 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 "nobody".  Try
> > tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman", or re-run
> > configure,  providing the command line option `-- with-mail-gid=nobody'.
> > )
> 
> This indicates that the wrapper is expecting group 'mailman' which is
> correct, but either 'mailman's primary group is 'nobody' which is both
> wrong and unlikely, or Postfix found the alias for
> bps_comps_print_announce in /etc/aliases.db which is owned by root so
> it fell back to 'default_privs'.
> 
> I suspect the latter is the explanation. There should be no Mailman
> aliases in /etc/aliases. Mailman will maintain them automatically in
> data/aliases which should be referenced in Postfix' alias_maps.
> 

OK

You were right on the ball!! I removed mailman aliases which were indeed in 
/etc/aliases and the problem went away..

Well done
Thanks

David