Thanks to both. But I'm afraid that this advice does not help, and I am giving up.
I suspect that what I am trying to do is impossible. And I also think I was going about it wrong. I was trying to use /etc/aliases to get the mail to go to procmail, with lines like this: Method 1 jdm-society: "|/usr/bin/procmail -m /etc/procmailrc" or Method 2 jdm-society-owner: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner jdm-society" And then /etc/procmail had lines like this: :0 * To:.*jdm-society-ow...@sjdm.org | /etc/smrsh/mailman owner jdm-society and /etc/smrsh has a soft links to /usr/bin/procmail and to ../../usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailm (I don't know why the ../../ is there.) Method 2 is what yielded the group mismatch. Method 1 just said user not found. I still have no idea where "baron" is coming from. I thought if I could figure that out it would lead to a solution. procmail is not "running". It is not listed in any version of "ps". It is evoked by sendmail or by /etc/aliases.db. sendmail and aliases.db are both owned by root and smmsp. I tried to change the owner of aliases.db to mail rather than root, but it got changed back when I ran newaliases. So I am giving up. We will just deal with the spam by hand. The list is moderated, so none of it actually gets posted, and we discourage some of it with a small captcha. (The really fancy ones are impossible. I can't do them myself.) I did read the link below, but I had not gotten up to trying to modify the code. It seems to be written mainly for some other system than what I have. (I'm using the last available Fedora RPM. I don't think they are going to update Mailman 2, or fix the bug. I do not have time to compile from source, since it is a major change - everything is in a different place. And I won't change to Mailman 3 because, so far as I can tell, we would not want any of its features and configuration would also take a lot of time. I will leave all this to my successor. Right now, everything works except the spam.) https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.23%20How%20do%20I%20use%20SpamAssassin%20with%20Mailman%3F Thanks for trying. Jon On 05/16/22 00:45, Bruce Johnson wrote: > Are any of the processes being run by that user? like cron jobs? > > Look throughthe mailman logs or other logs (it’s been a very long time; I > cannot remember if procmail and spamassasin have their own logs or they get > dumped into /var/log/messages (for RH-style systems; I forget what the > general syslog file is called in Debian style) Answers: No. No. Nothing in the logs (several of them.) > > > > On May 15, 2022, at 4:35 PM, Jon Baron <jonathanbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm sure this is a very dumb question, because I have seen several > > posts about it, all of which imply that there is some simple solution. > > > > I am trying to use spamassassin by running everything through > > /etc/procmail, and I get the following in /var/log/procmail: > > > > "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: "baron". > > Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as one of these groups: > > [mail, postfix, mailman, nobody, daemon]," > > > > The dumb question is: "What is the 'mail server'?" I thought it was > > sendmail, but I have no idea where "baron" comes from. baron is just a > > user on the system. The various IDs for mailman are set to sjdm.org in > > the configuration file. I installed it as "root" from a Fedora RPM, > > and the name "baron" had no part of that. So far as I can tell, > > NOTHING in this system is owned by "baron" except my own account > > (which is, however, included in several groups). > > > > Jon > > -- > > Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania > > Home page: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron > > ------------------------------------------------------ -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron Founding Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
