Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Abrahams wrote: > >Pardon me, but isn't the GID with which to execute cgi scripts? Or >are you saying that mailman's CGI scripts need to execute with the >same GID as sendmail? If so, why? Mailman's CGI scripts must run as group 'mailman' (or whatever is specified as the mailman group). T

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Abrahams wrote: > >Say, if I really want to distinguish lists.mydomain.com from >mydomain.com, is there any reason I can't still set up a virtual mail >host and tack an automated updating of the virtusers file as shown in >http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/184413752?pgno=4 onto >/usr/local/sb

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread David Abrahams
David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yep. I was editing "boost.mc" so in /etc/mail I did > > make boost.cf > cp boost.cf sendmail.cf > make restart Problem solved: I was pointing sendmail at the wrong path for the mailman.aliases file. [/etc/aliases was just a symlink to /etc/ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread David Abrahams
Pierre Forget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > If it can help. I had problems installing and integrating with sendmail. > > Culprit was that it needs to know under which group sendmail is > used. So, look carefully in your sendmail.cf (DefaultUser) and make > sure you compile mailman with the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread David Abrahams
Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Abrahams wrote: >> >>Uh-huh. But now I have all the products mentioned in step 5 except >>for mailman.aliases.db. I guess 2 out of 3 ain't bad, but... any >>clues? > > > If /etc/mailman.aliases is properly referenced in the sendmail > configuration

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Abrahams wrote: > >Uh-huh. But now I have all the products mentioned in step 5 except >for mailman.aliases.db. I guess 2 out of 3 ain't bad, but... any >clues? If /etc/mailman.aliases is properly referenced in the sendmail configuration, the /usr/bin/newaliases command in the /usr/bin/new

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread David Abrahams
Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Abrahams wrote: >> >>Heh, and even if I do that, I don't end up with a >>/usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases. > > > You have to create /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases with execute > permission and containing > > /bin/cp /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases /e

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread Pierre Forget
Hi, If it can help. I had problems installing and integrating with sendmail. Culprit was that it needs to know under which group sendmail is used. So, look carefully in your sendmail.cf (DefaultUser) and make sure you compile mailman with the switch to include this group for : --with-cgi-gid=g

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Abrahams wrote: > >Heh, and even if I do that, I don't end up with a >/usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases. You have to create /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases with execute permission and containing /bin/cp /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases /etc/mailman.aliases /usr/bin/newaliases >It seems like

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Abrahams wrote: >Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Look at the 'automated' method referred to in the FAQ. You may decide >> you don't need to go the mm-handler route. > >Heh, first hurdle: > >The instructions at >http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-June/037518.html

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread David Abrahams
David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Look at the 'automated' method referred to in the FAQ. You may decide >> you don't need to go the mm-handler route. > > Heh, first hurdle: > > The instructions at > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread David Abrahams
Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Look at the 'automated' method referred to in the FAQ. You may decide > you don't need to go the mm-handler route. Heh, first hurdle: The instructions at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-June/037518.html start with Create /usr/local

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread David Abrahams
Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Abrahams wrote: >> >>Mark, thank you! This looks a *lot* easier than what I was trying to >>do, and perhaps the post even implies that what I was trying to do >>won't work: >> >> "many people cannot use David Champion's mm-handler due to shared >>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Abrahams wrote: > >Mark, thank you! This looks a *lot* easier than what I was trying to >do, and perhaps the post even implies that what I was trying to do >won't work: > > "many people cannot use David Champion's mm-handler due to shared > use of domains" > >(what exactly does he mean by

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread David Abrahams
David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All that said, the follow-up post really gives me pause: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-June/037543.html > > Is that a legitimate worry? Whoops, I now see that by "this perl script" he's referring to mm-handler. Thanks. -- Dav

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread David Abrahams
Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Look at the 'automated' method referred to in the FAQ. You may decide > you don't need to go the mm-handler route. Mark, thank you! This looks a *lot* easier than what I was trying to do, and perhaps the post even implies that what I was trying to do won

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Abrahams wrote: > >I'm trying to follow the directions for integrating Mailman with >Sendmail, but I think they may be incomplete. It looks like there >were orginally some instructions directed at installations like mine >(a few users, a few mailing lists, *one* computer), and they were >ent

[Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

2006-12-03 Thread David Abrahams
Hi, I'm trying to follow the directions for integrating Mailman with Sendmail, but I think they may be incomplete. It looks like there were orginally some instructions directed at installations like mine (a few users, a few mailing lists, *one* computer), and they were entirely replaced by instr