[Mailman-Developers] [Fwd: Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Problem.]

[Greg Stein]

Harald Meland wrote:
> 
> [Michael Quigley]
> 
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > "|/d0/mailman/mail/wrapper post webmaster"
> >     (expanded from: webmaster@goingv.com)
> >
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > 554 "|/d0/mailman/mail/wrapper post webmaster"... unknown mailer error 1
> 
> This indicates that the "wrapper" binary or something exec()d by it,
> exit()ed with a status 1 (indicating that something failed).
> 
> The first thing to suspect is that "wrapper" is being run under the
> wrong gid.  If that is the case, it tries logging this to syslog.  The
> fix is either to reconfigure mailman with the "--with-mail-gid" option
> (and then rebuild and reinstall), or else configure your MTA to run
> the pipe under the correct gid.

This brings up an interesting idea: have the wrapper use different exit
codes based on why it punted. That way, a simple examination of the
maillog will tell you what happened.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/