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

[Mark Sapiro]

Thomas Koch wrote:
> Hi Mark with k,

:-)

> I've commented out the line
> SYSTEM_ALIASES_PIPE_TRANSPORT = address_pipe
> now and get my old error back:
> 
> 1HOcy6-0004Cy-Vj == |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post egroupware2-svn 
> <egroupware2-svn at localhost> R=system_aliases defer (-30): pipe_transport 
> unset in system_aliases router


Remove all the Mailman aliases from /etc/aliases or wherever they are. 
You don't use aliases with this Exim config.


> I've set up router and transport, see my config snippets below. I think the 
> problem is, that the transport isn't called, because exim tries to to some 
> aliases magic before. 


Exactly, which is why you don't want any Mailman aliases.


> I installed mailman following this site: 
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/108
> So I copied all those aliases to /etc/aliases, but afterwards I read, that 
> this is not recommended anymore. So I deleted the aliases again and called 
> newaliases.


newaliases normally does nothing in Exim. See the -bi option in 'man exim'.


> #################################
> conf.d/main/04_local_mailman_macros
> #################################
> # Home dir for your Mailman installation -- aka Mailman's prefix
> # directory.
> MAILMAN_HOME=/var/lib/mailman
> MAILMAN_WRAP=MAILMAN_HOME/mail/mailman
> 
> # User and group for Mailman, should match your --with-mail-gid
> # switch to Mailman's configure script.
> MAILMAN_USER=list
> MAILMAN_GROUP=daemon
> 
> ##################################
> conf.d/router/970_local_mailman:
> ##################################
> mailman_workaround:
>   domains = +local_domains
>   require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/$local_part/config.pck
>   driver = accept
>   local_parts = mailman
>   local_part_suffix_optional
>   local_part_suffix = -bounces : -bounces+* : \
>                       -confirm+* : -join : -leave : \
>                       -subscribe : -unsubscribe : \
>                       -owner : -request : -admin
>                       transport = mailman_transport
>                       group = MAILMAN_GROUP


group = doesn't belong here.

transport = seems overly indented, but it isn't Python :-)

> 
> # Mailman lists
> mailman_router:
>   domains = +local_domains
>   condition = 
> ${lookup{$local_part@$domain}lsearch{MAILMAN_HOME/data/virtual-mailman}{1}
> {0}}


This is if you have virtual domains. If not, the 'workaround' router is 
correct.

>   require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/$local_part/config.pck
>   driver = accept
>   local_part_suffix_optional
>   local_part_suffix = -bounces : -bounces+* : \
>                       -confirm+* : -join : -leave : \
>                       -subscribe : -unsubscribe : \
>                       -owner : -request : -admin
>                       transport = mailman_transport
>                       group = MAILMAN_GROUP


See above


> 
> 
> ##############################################
> conf.d/transport/40_local_mailman:
> ##############################################
> mailman_transport:
>   driver = pipe
>   command = MAILMAN_WRAP \
>             '${if def:local_part_suffix \
>                 {${sg{$local_part_suffix}{-(\\w+)(\\+.*)?}{\$1}}} \
>                 {post}}' \
>             $local_part
>   current_directory = MAILMAN_HOME
>   home_directory = MAILMAN_HOME
>   user = MAILMAN_USER
>   group = MAILMAN_GROUP
>   freeze_exec_fail = true

I don't know why you have freeze_exec_fail = true here. At least until 
you get things working, you probably don't want it.

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