I couldn't agree more. I was using the RPMs from RedHat with Sendmail. It was taking about 30 minutes to deliver 500 messages.
I downloaded and installed Postfix (not the RPM) and watched the time drop to 1 minute and 45 seconds. I liked that experience enough to download the tar file for Mailman. This allowed me to install a later version. Question of concern to me is: The RPM will verify that no dependencies will get broken. What method can I use to verify that, as an example, if I install Python 2, that no dependencies will be broken? Thanks, Timothy Brier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Pierron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist > On 25 October 2001, David Pierron said: > > I am new to Linux, Sendmail, and Mailman (uh-oh) > > I hope you haven't killed too many brain cells struggling with Sendmail. > Switch to a modern, comprehensible, high-performance, well-documented > MTA like Exim or Postfix before it's too late! (If performance is of > paramount concern, it sounds like Postfix has the edge; I like Exim > because of it's high configurability, excellent docs, and friendly > community.) (qmail is also good, but a bit of an oddball.) > > > My problem is the age old: > > Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 99, GOT gid 12. (Reconfigure to take 12?) > > 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2 > > The usual answer to this problem is: reconfigure and rebuild Mailman. > That means you need to build it from source, not install from an RPM. > > If all the RPMs are using are from Mandrake, then their Mailman RPM is > broken. You should complain to Mandrake. In the meantime, build > Mailman yourself and revel in the total control that process gives you. > ;-) > > Greg > -- > Greg Ward - software developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MEMS Exchange http://www.mems-exchange.org > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users