[Mailman-Users] Mailman doesnt deliver after server migration

[Mark Sapiro]

jknowlton at vp44.com wrote:
>I'm pretty sure it must be a permissions problem but I ran several times
>(as root and as user "list") check_perms -f and it says all is fixed.
>The web interface for the archives works ok.


It appears to be permissions on
/var/lib/mailman/lists/sottomessi/digest.mbox. Prior to Mailman
2.1.12rc1 there was a bug in check_perms in that it didn't check
digest.mbox files.

This file must be in mailman's group and group writable.


>This is my error log:
>
>Jan 19 11:33:19 2009 (1838) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13]
>Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/lists/sottomessi/digest.mbox'
>Jan 19 11:33:19 2009 (1838) Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 120, in _oneloop
>    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 191, in _onefile
>    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in
>_dispose
>    more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline)
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in
>_dopipeline
>    sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 77, in process
>    mboxfp = open(mboxfile, 'a+')
>IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>'/var/lib/mailman/lists/sottomessi/digest.mbox'
>
>Jan 19 11:33:19 2009 (1838) SHUNTING:
>1232361198.639926+de15be9465eda20d7e81b720ee14e85fd1ff7232

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