[Mailman-Users] mailman won't send out mail

[Jon Carnes]

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:00, Justin Rush wrote:
> While trying to do /sbin/service mailman start ... I get the following 
> error.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 524, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 319, in main
>     check_privs()
>   File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 274, in check_privs
>     gid = grp.getgrnam(mm_cfg.MAILMAN_GROUP)[2]
> KeyError: getgrnam(): name not found
> 
> I tried doing a rpm -U on the python devel package, but the error still 
> persists.
> 

Put the following in your /var/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file:
MAILMAN_USER = 'mailman'
MAILMAN_GROUP = 'mailman'

Also you will need to put in your hosts real domain name:
#DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'porky.devel.redhat.com'
#DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'porky.devel.redhat.com'
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'list.anncons.org'
DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'list.anncons.org'
DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/'
                                                                                
Lord knows what the Mailman packager for RedHat was smoking the day he
did this RPM...

Good luck - Jon Carnes

> On 31 Jul 2003, Jon Carnes wrote:
> 
> > First idea is to check to check out the FAQ, but the most common problem
> > here is that you didn't: service mailman start
> > 
> > Good Luck
> > 
> > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 10:17, Justin Rush wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >   I am trying to get mailman working on my new redhat 9 servers and 
> > > mailman refuses to send out mail.  I tried copying my mailman directory 
> > > from the working server (running redhat 7.3), but that didn't work.  I 
> > > also tried installing the newest rpm 2.1-8.  I see in the maillog that it 
> > > does recieve the mail:
> > > 
> > > Jul 31 09:12:36 hundo sendmail[20921]: h6VECahH020921: 
> > > from=<jrush at somedomain.org>, size=866, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
> > > msgid=<Pine.LNX.4.44.0307310927460.24367-100000 at xuthus.somedomain.org>, 
> > > proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mail.scout.wisc.edu [144.92.170.199]
> > > Jul 31 09:12:36 hundo sendmail[20922]: h6VECahH020921: 
> > > to="|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post test", 
> > > ctladdr=<test at hundo.scout.wisc.edu> (8/0), delay=00:00:00, 
> > > xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=31090, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> > > 
> > > However, nothing follows after that line.
> > > Sendmail will work just fine if I telnet to it and send mail, so mailman 
> > > must be the problem.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have any ideas?
> >