Mark Sapiro wrote: > To elaborate on the "installation is wrong" theory, if the mail wrapper > is built pointing to a scripts/ directory with a paths.py with a > 'prefix' different from the 'prefix' in the bin/ directory, this could > mess things up. > > I gather Mailman was working and stopped working. If this is the case, > did you change anything before it stopped? > > You could check for more that one scripts/ directory in different > places or check to see that scripts/paths.py is the same as > bin/paths.py? > > Does the web interface work? > > Can Mailman send mail, e.g. if you subscribe someone via the web, do > the notifications/confirmations get sent? >
As it turns out there are two installations of mailman on the server, one in /usr/local/mailman (2.1.8) and the other in /usr/lib/mailman (2.1.5). The daemons are running under the /usr/local/mailman, but the web interface (which is working) is under /usr/lib/mailman. Oddly enough the apache server is looking in /usr/local/mailman but when I renamed /usr/lib/mailman the web interface no longer worked. I renamed /usr/lib/mailman and linked /usr/lib/mailman over to the 2.1.8 installation. Also, the mm_cfg.py script under /usr/local/mailman had MTA incorrectly specified as Postfix. I had assumed the mm_cfg.py was in /usr/lib/mailman and edited that version, which turned out to have no effect. I now get this error message in maillog: Apr 20 14:06:48 cuttyhunk sendmail[13390]: l3KI6mg8013390: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=389, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] Apr 20 14:06:48 cuttyhunk sendmail[13389]: l3KI6ma0013389: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=rjh (500/500), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30058, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (l3KI6mg8013390 Message accepted for delivery) Apr 20 14:06:48 cuttyhunk Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman other mail daemon", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mail". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman other mail daemon", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mail'. Apr 20 14:06:48 cuttyhunk sendmail[13391]: l3KI6mg8013390: to="|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post test_mail", ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (8/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30637, dsn=5.3.0, stat=unknown mailer error 2 Apr 20 14:06:48 cuttyhunk sendmail[13391]: l3KI6mg8013390: l3KI6mg8013391: DSN: unknown mailer error 2 Apr 20 14:06:48 cuttyhunk sendmail[13391]: l3KI6mg8013391: [EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=31661, relay=tassadar.whoi.edu. [128.128.76.63], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok: queued as B8CC8162B27) Why does the mailman expect the group to be "mailman other mail daemon"? Sounds like it should be one of the four but is expecting the group name to actually be "mailman other mail daemon". I guess I can rerun the installation as it suggests. -Rick ------------------------------------------------------ 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
