[Mailman-Users] Debian, Exim4, GID, desperated...

[Mark Sapiro]

Thomas Koch wrote:
>
>I'm running a Debian-Sarge-Testing Server with Mailman 2.1.9-7, exim4 4.63-17.
>I think I've consulted every README, FAQ and internetsite available, but
>couldn't get mailman to work.
>
>I copied the Exim4 conf files from README.Exim4.Debian.
>
>The first problem was piping. I resolved it by creating a file
>conf.d/main/000_localmacros as indicated here:
>http://www.sput.nl/software/exim.html
>
>with
>SYSTEM_ALIASES_PIPE_TRANSPORT = address_pipe


The way to configure Mailman/Exim integration is discussed at
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.019.htp>
which contains a link to <http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html>.


>Now I get complaints like this:
>"Group mismatch error.  Mailman expected the mail
>wrapper script to be executed as group "daemon", but
>the system's mail server executed the mail script as
>group "Debian-exim"...."
>
>The problem doesn't change when I change the line
>MAILMAN_GROUP=daemon to anything like mailman, Debian-exim or list.


I don't know if you're talking about MAILMAN_GROUP in mm_cfg.py (which
you shouldn't change from the default) or MAILMAN_GROUP in your Exim
configuration or some Debian magic MAILMAN_GROUP to adjust the group
expected by the wrapper.

See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.016.htp>
for a better understanding of group mismatch errors.


>I also changed
>MTA = 'postfix' to MTA = None, but I think this shouldn't have effect on this
>issue.


Correct.

If the MAILMAN_GROUP=daemon you refer to above is in your Exim
configuration, that should be what you need, if it is properly
referenced by a 'group =' in your mailman transport, but in your case
you seem to be using aliases for mailman instead of a mailman router
and mailman transport, so the 'group = MAILMAN_GROUP' would be in the
address_pipe transport.

However, I recommend you configure exim per
<http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html> and do away with mailman
aliases altogether.

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