Hi all, I've received the error message reproduced below.
I think that I understand the basic problem, and the two generic solutions, i.e. I either have to change the GID that exim executes the mail script as, or I have to reconfigure mailman to accept the mail GID "Debian-exim". Unfortunately I'm under some pressure to get the list back up immediately and (for various reasons) I fear that I might not have the time to learn enough about the Debian package and Exim to implement a quick fix on that side of the problem. So I was hoping that the mailman re-configuration might be a bit simpler (e.g. a single command line or a simple config file edit) and that someone on the list might be able to point me to a suitable recipe. I wouldn't normally ask, but I am under time pressure and the error message saying "re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=Debian-exim'" does need a bit of extra context to disambiguate with absolute certainty. Does the author want me to configure and recompile a binary, or is there a mailman configure script that I haven't found yet? In either case, which binary or script? As far as possible, I try to keep production machines using Debian package management free of source packages. So if there isn't any means of reconfiguring the GID in mailman from the shell or a text editor, I'll probably just have to go digging around in Exim. Dave P.S. The whole thing was working fine until a few days ago, but I think a recent upgrade to the Debian Exim 4 has introduced some config changes which I probably wouldn't have accepted if I had known/understood them properly. error> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its error> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: error> error> pipe to |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mylist error> generated by [EMAIL PROTECTED] error> local delivery failed error> error> The following text was generated during the delivery attempt: error> error> ------ pipe to |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mylist error> generated by [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ error> error> Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail error> wrapper script to be executed as group "daemon", but error> the system's mail server executed the mail script as error> group "Debian-exim". Try tweaking the mail server to run the error> script as group "daemon", or re-run configure, error> providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=Debian-exim'. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org