[Mailman-Users] problems getting mailman to work with qmail

[Adi Fairbank]

Did you configure mailman with --with-mail-gid=nofiles ?  I don't know about
the rest of your problems, but I got it to work simply by making that one
change.  I'm running on RedHat 7.x.

HTH,
-Adi

tom wrote:
> 
> Im attempting to setup mailman (v2.0.8) on a FreeBSD machine with qmail,
> and not having too much luck. Hopefully some of you have some ideas :)
> 
> First problem was that mailman couldnt send out messages. This was fixed
> by correctly setting my SMTPHOST in mm_cfg.py.
> 
> In accordance with README.QMAIL, ive added some users that qmail runs
> under to the 'mailman' group, and then allowed group read-write on the
> mailman directory. I was unsure which qmail user actually needed access,
> so i setup multiple users to do so:
> 
> > grep mailman /etc/group
> mailman:*:1010:qmaill,qmails,qmailr
> > ps aux | grep qmail
> qmails   398  0.0  0.4   940  468 con- I    Tue05PM   0:05.46 qmail-send
> qmaill   406  0.0  0.4   880  440 con- I    Tue05PM   0:02.35 splogger
> qmail
> root     407  0.0  0.3   880  372 con- I    Tue05PM   0:01.19
> qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox
> qmailr   408  0.0  0.3   880  432 con- I    Tue05PM   0:00.52
> qmail-rspawn
> qmailq   409  0.0  0.3   868  388 con- I    Tue05PM   0:00.90
> qmail-clean
> root     416  0.0  0.4   896  480 con- I    Tue05PM   0:02.01
> tcpserver -H -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.ch
> 
> we have some virtual domains setup, and utilize vpopmail. one domain is
> xxx.net, and the domain i want mailman to work with is dev.xxx.net.
> > cat /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/dev.xxxx.net/.qmail-default
> |/usr/local/bin/python /home/mailman/qmail-to-mailman.py
> | /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
> 
> (the qmail-to-mailman.py script is the one from the mailman/contrib/
> directory).
> 
> python is an acceptable version:
> > python
> Python 2.2 (#1, Jan  3 2002, 21:54:19)
> [GCC 2.95.3 [FreeBSD] 20010315 (release)] on freebsd4
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> 
> if i take out the qmail-to-mailman.py from
> domain/dev.xxxx.net/.qmail-default, all mail to dev.xxxx.net bounces, as
> it should because of the 'bounce-no-mailbox' line after it.  thus, i
> suspect that qmail-to-mailman.py is getting the mail but (silently)
> dropping or not doing what it should be doing with it.
> 
> /home/mailman/logs has some things of interest:
> 
> > tail post
> (some lines removed because they are all the same/similar)
> Apr 12 21:03:03 2002 (80009) post to test1-work from
> test1-work-request at dev.xxxx.net, size=767, 1 failures
> Apr 12 21:04:01 2002 (80021) post to test2-mmantest from
> test2-mmantest-request at dev.xxxx.net, size=783, 1 failures
> Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80021) post to testproj-test from
> testproj-test-request at dev.xxxx.net, size=779, 1 failures
> Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80021) post to test1-work from
> test1-work-request at dev.xxxx.net, size=767, 1 failures
> 
> > tail smtp
> Apr 12 21:04:01 2002 (80021) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.199
> seconds
> Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80021) All recipients refused: (61, 'Connection
> refused')
> Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80021) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.156
> seconds
> Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80021) All recipients refused: (61, 'Connection
> refused')
> Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80021) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.164
> seconds
> Apr 12 21:04:55 2002 (80029) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.319
> seconds
> Apr 12 21:05:02 2002 (80052) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.458
> seconds
> Apr 12 21:05:03 2002 (80052) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.416
> seconds
> Apr 12 21:05:03 2002 (80052) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.432
> seconds
> Apr 12 21:07:56 2002 (80084) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.296
> seconds
> 
> > tail qrunner
> Apr 12 20:53:02 2002 (79833) Could not acquire qrunner lock
> Apr 12 20:55:03 2002 (79869) Could not acquire qrunner lock
> Apr 12 20:57:02 2002 (79910) Could not acquire qrunner lock
> Apr 12 20:58:02 2002 (79919) Could not acquire qrunner lock
> Apr 12 20:59:02 2002 (79929) Could not acquire qrunner lock
> Apr 12 21:00:03 2002 (79956) Could not acquire qrunner lock
> Apr 12 21:02:02 2002 (79996) Could not acquire qrunner lock
> Apr 12 21:03:02 2002 (80010) Could not acquire qrunner lock
> Apr 12 21:04:02 2002 (80022) Could not acquire qrunner lock
> Apr 12 21:05:03 2002 (80047) Could not acquire qrunner lock
> 
> anyone have any ideas? is there a place where the i can get more
> information on the problem mailman is having besides 'size=767, 1
> failures'?
> any ideas/help would be much appreciated.
> 
> -tom
> 
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