[Mailman-Users] compiling mm2.1.1 with sendmail

[Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist]

I'm having the devil of a time getting mailman to work with sendmail. It
compiles and installs ok but contstantly bickers about

Mailman expected the mail
wrapper script to be executed as group "other", but
the system's mail server executed the mail script as
group "mailman".  Try tweaking the mail server to run the
script as group "other", or re-run configure,
providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'.

Details; have mailman account,group, homedir sgid,
./configure --prefix=/etc/mailman --with-mail-gid=mailman --with-cgi-gid=mailman
make
make install
cd $PREFIX/bin
./check_perms -f
./check_perms -f
   first time finds and corrects all the template errors, second runs clean
   web page is accessible, can create list eg listname mailman
   but no notification  is sent to the list owner


ln -s /etc/mailman/mail/mailman /var/adm/sm.bin
Mar  3 11:57:25 myhost.domain sm-mta[29735]: [ID 801593 mail.info] h23GvO5302973
5: from=<dave at anotherhost>, size=660, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200303031656.h23
Guc7x027829 at anotherhost>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=anotherhost [128.8.120.
201]
Mar  3 11:57:25 myhost.domain Mailman mail-wrapper: [ID 702911 mail.error] Group
 mismatch error.  Mailman expected the mail
Mar  3 11:57:25 myhost.domain wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman",
but
Mar  3 11:57:25 myhost.domain the system's mail server executed the mail script
as
Mar  3 11:57:25 myhost.domain group "other".  Try tweaking the mail server to ru
n the
Mar  3 11:57:25 myhost.domain script as group "mailman", or re-run configure,
Mar  3 11:57:25 myhost.domain providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid
=other'.
Mar  3 11:57:25 myhost.domain sm-mta[29736]: [ID 801593 mail.info] h23GvO5302973
5: to="|/etc/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman", ctladdr=<mailman at myhost.domain>
 (1/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30902, dsn=5.3.0, stat
=unknown mailer error 2
Mar  3 11:57:25 myhost.domain sm-mta[29736]: [ID 801593 mail.info] h23GvO5302973
5: h23GvP53029736: DSN: unknown mailer error 2
Mar  3 11:57:25 myhost.domain sm-mta[29736]: [ID 801593 mail.info] h23GvP5302973
6: to=<dave at anotherhost>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=31926, relay=anotherhost. [128.8.120.201], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (h23Gucm8027833 Mes
sage accepted for delivery)


% ls -l /etc/mailman/mail/mailman
-rwxr-sr-x   1 mailman  mailman    25736 Mar  3 11:45 /etc/mailman/mail/mailman

Even tried modifying sendmail.cf to use
  O DefaultUser=mailman      but I REALLY don't wanna do that.

Tried rebuilding with --with-mail-gid=other.  Anyone else come across this?



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 David Stern                                            University of Maryland
                Institute for Advanced Computer Studies