[Mailman-Users] posted messages disappear

Dan Mick Dan.Mick at West.Sun.COM
Tue Dec 5 23:26:54 CET 2000


Why haven't you said anything about you cron setup?

> Hi, I'm having trouble getting mailman 2.0 to work properly with postfix
> on a solaris machine.  The web interface works, and it mails out a welcome
> message when I add users to the list but when I post to the list the
> messages just disappear.  I added the aliases as instructed and I can see
> in the mail logs that the message is being delivered to the "wrapper post
> test" command with no error messages.  I don't get any error messages in
> $prefix/mailman/logs either.  I ran configure with the following options:
> 
> ./configure --with-username=mailman --prefix=/var/mailman 
> --with-cgi-gid=http --with-mail-gid=mailman
> 
> Also I put the aliases for the list in a separate file the way it says to
> do if you're using postfix in the troubleshooting section of the INSTALL
> file.
> 
> I don't really understand what mail-gid is for.  Does it mean the gid it
> expects the wrapper program to be run with from postfix?  After I moved
> the aliases for the test list to a separate file and changed the
> owenership to mailman.mailman postfix seemed to run the command with gid
> mailman which should be ok...
> 
> Could somebody please give me some suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?  
> Thanks.





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