> Mark wrote: > >> Greg 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 > . > > 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 The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan >
# ls -lhZ /etc/aliases* -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:etc_aliases_t /etc/aliases -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:etc_aliases_t /etc/aliases.db # ls -lhZ /etc/mailman/aliases* -rw-rw---- root mailman user_u:object_r:mailman_data_t /etc/mailman/aliases -rw-rw-r-- mailman mailman user_u:object_r:mailman_data_t /etc/mailman/aliases.db # cat /etc/mailman/aliases # This file is generated by Mailman, and is kept in sync with the # binary hash file aliases.db. YOU SHOULD NOT MANUALLY EDIT THIS FILE # unless you know what you're doing, and can keep the two files properly # in sync. If you screw it up, you're on your own. # The ultimate loop stopper address mailman-loop: /var/lib/mailman/data/owner-bounces.mbox # STANZA START: mailman # CREATED: Thu Jul 23 14:23:19 2009 mailman: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman" mailman-admin: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman" mailman-bounces: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman" mailman-confirm: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman" mailman-join: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman" mailman-leave: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman" mailman-owner: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman" mailman-request: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman" mailman-subscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman" mailman-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman" # STANZA END: mailman # STANZA START: test # CREATED: Thu Jul 23 16:21:13 2009 test: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post test" test-admin: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin test" test-bounces: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces test" test-confirm: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm test" test-join: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join test" test-leave: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave test" test-owner: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner test" test-request: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request test" test-subscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe test" test-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe test" # STANZA END: test # postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/mailman/aliases, hash:/etc/aliases command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 home_mailbox = Maildir/ html_directory = no inet_interfaces = localhost mail_owner = postfix mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix manpage_directory = /usr/share/man mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain mydomain = xyz.com myhostname = list.xyz.com mynetworks = 10.100.159.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 myorigin = $mydomain newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/README_FILES recipient_delimiter = + relay_domains = relayhost = sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/samples sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix setgid_group = postdrop smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 So do I have everything configured right?? Do I have to recompile mailman? If so it looks like I have to recompile starting with ./configure --with-mail-gid=root Thanks, _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Search, add, and share the web’s latest sports videos. Check it out. http://www.windowslive.com/Online/Hotmail/Campaign/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_QA_HM_sports_videos_072009&cat=sports ------------------------------------------------------ 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
