That advanced the ball. The problem was that the mailman's primay group was mailman (Mandriva automagically creates a primary group for each user with the same name as the user name, that has been a problem more than once). I changed the primary group to mail. Thanks.
However, I am now getting permission denied errors on the database folders. IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman/database/2008-October-date.lock.dap002.2271.2' I ran check_perms and all is OK. This has always been about ownership/permissions but I question why check_perms doesn't/won't fix it. What is it supposed to be? FWIW, the owner:group for /usr/lib/mailman and /var/lib/mailman trees is mailman:mail. I should also note that the command (it was just a help command to req) did work but I did not want to try actually mailing something to a list until this is all fixed. Thanks again for your help and my ISP seems to be accepting email from the python.org domain again. Mark Sapiro wrote: >Where are your aliases? > >The mail wrapper is compiled to to expect to be invoked by the 'mail' >group. Postfix will invoke the wrapper as the user and that user's >primary group corresponding to the owner of the aliases.db file in >which the pipe command was found. I.e., if the aliases.db file is >userx:groupy, postfix will invoke the wrapper as userx:groupx where >groupx is userx's primary group. > >-- >Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net ><http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users>> The highway is >for gamblers, >San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
