With some excellent help, all my Mailman problems up to today have been solved. and my mailing lists have been behaving normally. Since it's a new month, mailpasswd ran earlier this morning. The email of the cron job reported a permissions error on one of the config.pck files for one of the lists. Investigation proved the offender was owned by root, not mailman. Interesting that check_perms didn't think this was a problem. I found several others that were like this and, figuring the one reported in the cron email was only the tip of the iceberg, I changed the others as well and forced the cron job to run again. As a result, I got the following:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds", line 243, in <module> main() File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds", line 237, in main 'verp' : mm_cfg.VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS, File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 313, in send self._enqueue(mlist, **_kws) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 325, in _enqueue **_kws) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 136, in enqueue fp = open(tmpfile, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/virgin/1438435501.992054+ccd0ca1df3e432f3edbc589c470ce7b47276cc9d.pck.tmp' As you can tell, this is a hand-built installation of Mailman, which may or may not have something to do with this. check_perms reports no problems found. The directory /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/virgin, which is currently empty, is owned by root and is a member of the mailman group. Its protection mask is 770. Looking through the mm documentation isn't doing it for me at this point. Everything on the new system looks like it matches everything on the old system with regard to protection masks and ownerships. What else should I be checking? ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org