Greg White wrote: > >I am running Centos 5.3 with all of the updates. I needed a mail list server >so I installed mailman and postfix. I did yum install postfix and yum install >mailman. postfix installed and can send email to my live account so it is >working. mailman is installed and I can goto my server and subscribe to a >list. I get the confirmation email from mailman. However when I try to post >I get a group mismatch error. > >I have done a google search and everyone says to recompile with the proper >./configure. I installed from packages. I would rather not have to >recompile. Everything seems to be ok except I can't post. > ># /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman >Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed >as one of the following groups: >[mail, postfix, mailman, nobody, daemon], >but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group: "root". >Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as one of these groups: >[mail, postfix, mailman, nobody, daemon], >or re-run configure providing the command line option: >'--with-mail-gid=root'.
This only tells us that you ran the wrapper as root. It doesn't say how Postfix ran it. ># /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms -f >No problems found > >So what did I do wrong? And why isn't check_perms detecting the problem. >From what I read on the internet this is a very common problem. Group mismatch errors have little to do with permissions and check_perms can't really check them. See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/tYA9>. The answer in your case is that Mailman's aliases need to be in an aliases.db file whose owner's primary group is one of your above list - normally 'mailman'. Note that this doesn't mean the file's group; it means the primary group of the file's owner. This is a Postfix thing. If you have Mailman/Postfix integration properly configured, this should be automatic because the aliases will be in Mailman's data/aliases* files and data/aliases.db will be owned by the Mailman user. Note that if this isn't all properly set up from the rpms, that is a RedHat/CentOS packaging issue over which we have no control. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> 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
