[Mailman-Developers] News->Mail gateways

[John Viega]

On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 07:01:17PM -0400, Michael McLay wrote:
> checking for --with-mail-gid... other mail daemon
> checking for mail_wrapper GID... ./configure: python: not found
> cat: conftest.out: No such file or directory
> configure: error: 
> 
> ***** Group other mail daemon not found!  You must first
> ***** set up the other mail daemon entry in /etc/group
> ***** or set the MAIL_GID shell variable on the
> ***** configure command line

Well, it looks like Python isn't in your path when installing, and it
needs to be.  The configure script is trying to run Python to guess
which group your SMTPD runs under, but can't run Python, and thus
can't come up with a guess.

John