[Mailman-Users] Different Errors this time

[Jon Carnes]

Please see the FAQ

In a nutshell it will tell you that Mailman's CGI's are setup with a
security feature during the install.  The feature only allows someone
with the proper GroupID to run the CGI's.

The scripts that are run via your MTA (mail-server) should be set to
only run for someone with a GroupID of "mailnull".  This is because
*your* mail-server runs as GroupID "mailnull"

To set this up, you need to rerun the ./configure command (assuming you
installed this from source):
  ./configure --with-mail-gid=mailnull
  make install

Note: this will not hurt any of your current lists or list values
(unless you modified the ~mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py file instead of
the mm_cfg.py file).  So fixing this should be a five minute job.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 13:02, Joseph Smith wrote:
>   Hello again,
> 
> I corrected and followed the information from an earlier post to solve the 
> smrsh issue and now I get the following msg back when sending to the list.
> 
> I can read what it ways but for someone new this is a headache.  I need to 
> understand more then just receive and answer.
> 
> 
>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> Group mismatch error.  Mailman expected the mail
> wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman", but
> the system's mail server executed the mail script as
> group "mailnull".  Try tweaking the mail server to run the
> script as group "mailman", or re-run configure,
> providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailnull'.
> 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2
> 
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> Joe
> 
> 
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