[Mailman-Users] Mail Not Being Sent - RH, Sendmail & RPMs

[Mike Gifford]

Hello,

I think that this might be another tricky RPM issue..

I can send mail with elm just fine, however when mailman tells me it is
sending me a note (either from the web interface or the command line) it
never gets to me.

I've snipped most of these log files, but think there is likely relevant
stuff here:

# cat logs/error 
Jan 15 01:30:01 2002 gate_news(30747): Traceback (innermost last):
Jan 15 01:30:01 2002 gate_news(30747):   File
"/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ?
Jan 15 01:30:01 2002 gate_news(30747):      main()
Jan 15 01:30:01 2002 gate_news(30747):   File
"/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main
Jan 15 01:30:01 2002 gate_news(30747):      process_lists(lock)
Jan 15 01:30:01 2002 gate_news(30747):   File
"/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 148, in process_lists
Jan 15 01:30:01 2002 gate_news(30747):      conn, first, last =
open_newsgroup(mlist)
Jan 15 01:30:01 2002 gate_news(30747):   File
"/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 75, in open_newsgroup
Jan 15 01:30:01 2002 gate_news(30747):     
password=mm_cfg.NNTP_PASSWORD)
Jan 15 01:30:01 2002 gate_news(30747):   File
"/var/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 111, in __init__
Jan 15 01:30:01 2002 gate_news(30747):     
self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
Jan 15 01:30:01 2002 gate_news(30747): socket . error :  (111,
'Connection refused') 


# cat logs/post
Jan 15 01:33:00 2002 (30758) post to mike from
mailman-owner at my.site.org, size=1369, 1 failures

# cat logs/smtp-failure 
Jan 15 01:34:01 2002 (30762) -1 mike at flora.org (ignore)


Also, I'm also not sure if this is relevant, but this error is coming up
and I still don't know how to fix it (other than ditch the RPM and go
from the tarball)

# bin/check_perms
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "bin/check_perms", line 50, in ?
    MAILMAN_GRPNAME = grp.getgrgid(MAILMAN_GID)[0]
TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation


I'm also still confused by this 


Also, as I'm using sendmail, I would have configured it from the tarball
using: 	
	--with-mail-gid=mail

However I don't have that option and so need to know how to set this
with the rpm version.  This might be the source of the problem, however
I'm sure that Red Hat would have tried to put that default into their
config as they ship with sendmail...

Thanks again for your previous help..  It's working much better now..

Mike
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