Okay, the problem was with my MTA - Exim was not set up to play with mailman, so after following the advice given in the Exim-mailman readme, I have made some progress. The test messages sent previously were being frozen by Exim because it was not correctly set up to handle messages to mailman.
The problem now is with group mismatch - my mails are getting through to mailman but the following is returned as an error: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "daemon", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "Debian-exim". I have followed the instructions given by Roger Lynn on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=303342 as to how to set up exim conf files to invoke mailman correctly, but I still get the group mismatch error despite setting the script calling user to "list" and group to "daemon" as recommended. I know the error suggests this configuration change is not getting through, but I have run out of things to try (and my head hurts). Is there any way to instruct mailman to accept another group without recompiling (I'm on Debian and used apt for a package install)? To reiterate my "versions": Mailman 2.1.8 on Debian with exim4 (4.63). Thanks once again for your time. Biggs On 13/10/06, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BigglesZX wrote: > > >Ah, and here's the strange thing - if I send mail to the list address > >(using [EMAIL PROTECTED]) from a local account, it doesn't get sent > >out on the list either! No bounce messages are returned. > > > What's in the local MTA log for this message? Do you have aliases or > whatever the MTA uses to pipe the message to Mailman? > > -- > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.biggleszx.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
