[Mailman-Users] Sendmail: using aliases

Randall Perry rgp at systame.com
Fri Apr 29 16:06:54 CEST 2005


> Hmmm... didn't Mailman mail you a list of commands to add to your alias
> file?
> I don't know anything about Mac OS, but here is what I typically get from
> Mailman when I create a new list:
> 
> franklin:              "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post franklin"
> franklin-admin:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin franklin"
> franklin-bounces:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces franklin"
> franklin-confirm:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm franklin"
> franklin-join:         "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join franklin"
> franklin-leave:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave franklin"
> franklin-owner:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner franklin"
> franklin-request:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request franklin"
> franklin-subscribe:    "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe franklin"
> franklin-unsubscribe:  "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe
> franklin"

Thanks everyone for the quick response. In addition to adding the aliases
above I had to create forwarding entries for each address in virtusertable,
i.e.:

virtusertable
-------------
franklin at acme.com       franklin

aliases
-------
franklin:              "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post franklin"


Now I'm getting the error:
Apr 29 10:04:45 localhost Mailman mail-wrapper: 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 "daemon".
Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman", or re-run
configure,  providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=daemon'.

So, I guess I have to re-run configure?
 


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