[Mailman-Users] Mailman and Postfix

[Gerard Hickey]

Dan Delaney wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > May 21 11:51:27 thoreau Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script.
> > WANTED gid 65534, GOT gid 600.  (Reconfigure to take 600?)
> > May 21 11:51:27 thoreau Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script.
> > WANTED gid 65534, GOT gid 1.  (Reconfigure to take 1?)
> 
> I had the same problem. gid 65534 is the "nobody" group. All I did to fix it
> was set the gid to "nobody" in the configure line when configuring mailman
> to be compiled:
> 
>    --with-mail-gid=nobody
>
> That should do it.
> I assume that you probably have something like "--with-mail-gid=600" or
> "--with-mail-gid=postfix", but it's expecting group "nobody" instead.


Mailman was configured with the gid of nobody. The problem seems to be
that when mail is sent on the local system, the mail process take on the
same uid/gid of the user sending the mail (gid of 600). After the
wrapper fails the first time, it seems that it changes to the trusted
user and runs the wrapper again (gid of 1).  

I just espected this behavior to have been seen before and someone could
send me a "hey stupid" message to get me back on track. 
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