On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 09:36, Thorsten Brabetz wrote: > > Hello List, > > Ok, new to the list, and probably not a good start, since > it turns out that I am too stupid to search the list > archives. If I go to the page > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > and click on "searchable archives", I get a "time-out" > error... > > So, I am probably asking a question that has been asked > probably at least a hundred times in the past, and my > apologies in advance, but I still need an answer somehow: > > I tried to install mailman, and for all I can tell > successfully since I did not get any error messages at any > stage, but it still does not work. Unfortunately, there are > only very few hints as to what the problem might be. > > The best one is probably in mailman/logs/errors, where > everytime I execute "./mailmanctl restart" it says: > > Feb 26 14:00:39 2004 (24372) Warning: unable to > setgroups([101, 101]) > > Assuming it refers to the $prefix directory, I can't > however see why: > > redwolf:/usr/local# ll | grep mailman > drwxrwsr-x 20 mailman mailman 1024 Feb 25 14:44 > mailman > > Running mailman/bin/check_perms shows no problems either: > > redwolf:/usr/local/mailman# bin/check_perms > No problems found > > Other log entries that seem to refer to the problem are in > mailman/logs/smtp-failure: > > Feb 26 14:15:45 2004 (24376) Low level smtp error: host not > found, msgid: None > Feb 26 14:15:45 2004 (24376) delivery to mailman-owner (at) > redwolf.org.uk failed with code -1: host not found > Feb 26 14:15:45 2004 (24376) Low level smtp error: host not > found, msgid: <mailman.0.1077753904.16057.test7 (at) > redwolf.org.uk> > Feb 26 14:15:45 2004 (24376) delivery to webmaster (at) > brabetz.de failed with code -1: host not found > Feb 26 14:15:45 2004 (24376) Low level smtp error: host not > found, msgid: <mailman.0.1077755635.15842.mailman (at) > redwolf.org.uk> > Feb 26 14:15:45 2004 (24376) delivery to webmaster (at) > brabetz.de failed with code -1: host not found > > (there are literally thousands of these entries, they are > referring to test messages that I have sent to test lists) > > However, if I "su mailman", I can mail no problems to any > E-mail account locally or remote, including those that the > error messages refer to, e.g. webmaster (at) brabetz.de, > and I have tried quite a few. MTA is exim (in the log entry > above, I have replaced the @ with (at) to make it at least > a tiny bit harder for spammers to harvest my E-mail > address). > > Install is on a Debian system, but I did not use apt-get, > but instead downloaded the source code and used > "./configure ; make install". Mailman user is mailman, > mailman group is mailman. mailman is a member of group > mailman, and only the group mailman. > > I have been through all FAQs and README files I could find > for two days now, without finding even as much as a hint to > what the problem might be, and have reached that stage > where I would really appreciate *any* hint as to where to > start looking for it. > > Thank you in advance for any prospective advice! > > Best wishes > > > Thorsten
Sounds like you've done a great job of troubleshooting so far, so I'm sure you've looked here (or soon will): Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ FAQ 3.14 covers a lot of ground in getting folks up and running, but it sounds like you've got a few problems that may not be covered in there. What in particular are your settings in ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py (or Defaults.py) for the "Delivery Defaults": DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' MTA = 'Manual' SMTPHOST = 'localhost' SMTPPORT = 0 # default from smtplib SENDMAIL_CMD = '/usr/lib/sendmail' You might need to specify SMTPPORT = 25 or play with the SENDMAIL_CMD setting. Also, is the mailman group number 101 on your system? If so, you may have problems with using SetGID on this system. I'm not a regular Debian or Exim user so I can't give you any specifics, but I would look at those two areas, based on the errors you are getting. Hope that is helpful - Jon Carnes ------------------------------------------------------ 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
