[Mailman-Users] Join List Problem

[Bill Honneus (honneus)]

Hi Mark,

We're getting closer.  I changed the symbolic link in /etc/smrsh to the
following:

[root at 157226-mail smrsh]# ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 31 May  6 13:18 mailman ->
/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman

Now I am getting the following error:

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at my.domain.com>
To: myAddress at yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 1:11:04 PM
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details

The original message was received at Tue, 6 May 2008 13:11:04 -0400
from my-hostname.domain.com [111.111.111.111]

  ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join test"
    (reason: 2)
    (expanded from: <test-join at my.domain.com>)

  ----- 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 "mail".  Try tweaking the mail server to run the
script as group "mailman", or re-run configure, 
providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mail'.
554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2
Reporting-MTA: dns; my.domain.com
Received-From-MTA: DNS; my-hostname.domain.com
Arrival-Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 13:11:04 -0400

Final-Recipient: RFC822; test-join at my.domain.com
X-Actual-Recipient: X-Unix; |/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join test
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 2
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 13:11:04 -0400

I tried to change the ownership of the symbolic link to mailman, but
that didn't seem to take:

[root at 157226-mail smrsh]# chown :mailman mailman
[root at 157226-mail smrsh]# ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 31 May  6 13:18 mailman ->
/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman
[root at 157226-mail smrsh]#  

Thanks,

Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:mark at msapiro.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:26 AM
To: Bill Honneus (honneus); mailman-users at python.org
Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Join List Problem

Bill Honneus wrote:
>
>I renamed the old mailman folder and restarted both mailman and apache.
>I retried emailing the list using my test-join alias and now got the 
>following error:
>
>From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at my.domain.com>
>To: myAddress at yahoo.com
>Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 10:45:53 AM
>Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
>
>The original message was received at Tue, 6 May 2008 10:45:53 -0400 
>from my.hostname.domain.com [111.111.111.111]
>
>  ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- 
>"|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join test"
>    (reason: Service unavailable)
>    (expanded from: <test-join at my.domain.com>)
>
>  ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>smrsh: "mailman" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed)
>554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
>Reporting-MTA: dns; my.domain.com
>Received-From-MTA: DNS; my.hostname.domain.com
>Arrival-Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 10:45:53 -0400


Now we're getting somewhere. You have smrsh enabled in sendmail and it
is not allowed to execute the /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman wrapper.
It probably was allowed to execute the old one which is why you didn't
see this before. I.e. you probably have a symlink from mailman to
/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman is the smrsh directory which needs to be
changed (or added if not there) to go to
/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman.

See <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node32.html> and/or sec 3 of
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.078.htp>.


-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan