mailman question[MAILER-DAEMON: Returned mail: see transcript for details]

[David Meyer]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:45:21PM -0800, David Meyer wrote:
>> 	I'm sure folks have seen this (many times) already, so
>> 	thanks for the help up front.
>> 
>> 	So I'm trying to get mailman to run on FC3, and I am
>> 	running into the following problem: 
>> 
>> >>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>> >> Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be
>> >> executed as one of the following groups:
>> >> [mail, postfix, mailman, nobody],
>> >> but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group: "mailnull".
>> >> Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as one of these groups:
>> >> [mail, postfix, mailman, nobody],
>> >> or re-run configure providing the command line option:
>> >> '--with-mail-gid=mailnull'.
>> >> 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2
>> 	
>> 	Since I installed mailman from the RPM, I didn't
>> 	configure it. Further, sendmail.8.13.1 has a config
>> 	option that looks like
>> 
>> # default UID (can be username or userid:groupid)
>> # O DefaultUser=mailnull
>> 
>> 	If you set DefaultUser to something else, everything else
>> 	goes south...
>> 
>> 	Anyone have a suggestion?
>> 
>> 	Thanks, and have a safe and happy new year,
>> 
>> 	Dave


	Solved my own problem, at least in one way:

	./configure --verbose --prefix=/var/mailman  --with-mail-gid=mailnull --with-cgi-gid=apache

	Thanks,

	Dave

>> 
>> 	
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