Thanks David, Unfortnately, looking at our sendmail.cf file, DefaultUser is not set..
# default UID (can be username or userid:groupid) #O DefaultUser=mailnull Is there a UID or GID that sendmail uses, that mailman might want in cases like this where sendmail.cf does not indicate a specific defaultUser? TIA, J. On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, David Ball wrote: > As the error message indicates, it's not thrilled with the GID > that it you're running the mail wrapper with. Fixing this requires that > you rerun ./configure with the --with-mail-gid= and set it to the same GID > that your mailer uses (check your sendmail.cf...look for DefaultUser= and > use the second number). Naturally, you'd follow this up with a `make > install` ... hope that helps! > Check http://www.list.org/install-config.html for more details on > ./configure options. > > David > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Joshua S. Freeman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have been through the FAQ and the README.SENDMAIL document and have not > > found the solution I need. > > > > I have successfully installed mailman on my linux box. I am using > > sendmail. I can create lists and hit their web pages and subscribe people > > and receive subscription messages, etc. > > > > I CANNOT send emails to the list. Here's what I get in reply: > > > > > > -----------------------------snip-------------------------- > > > > > > The original message was received at Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:01:49 -0400 > > from nobody@localhost > > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post mm-test" > > (reason: 2) > > (expanded from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 2. (Reconfigure to take > > 2?) > > 554 5.3.0 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post mm-test"... unknown mailer > > error 2 > > > > Reporting-MTA: dns; mysql.org > > Arrival-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:01:49 -0400 > > > > Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > X-Actual-Recipient: X-Unix; |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post mm-test > > Action: failed > > Status: 5.0.0 > > Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 2 > > Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:01:49 -0400 > > > > -----------------------------snip--------------------------------- > > > > can anyone tell me what's wrong? > > > > It's important (for my job) that I get this working. > > > > Many T'sIA > > > > J. > > > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > > Joshua S. Freeman | preferred email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > pgp public key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.threeofus.com > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Joshua S. Freeman | preferred email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp public key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.threeofus.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users