[Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

[Dennis Putnam]

That advanced the ball. The problem was that the mailman's primay group was mailman (Mandriva automagically creates a primary group for each user with the same name as the user name, that has been a problem more than once). I changed the primary group to mail. Thanks.

However, I am now getting permission denied errors on the database folders.

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman/database/2008-October-date.lock.dap002.2271.2'

I ran check_perms and all is OK. This has always been about ownership/permissions but I question why check_perms doesn't/won't fix it. What is it supposed to be?

FWIW, the owner:group for /usr/lib/mailman and /var/lib/mailman trees is mailman:mail. 

I should also note that the command (it was just a help command to req) did work but I did not want to try actually mailing something to a list until this is all fixed.

Thanks again for your help and my ISP seems to be accepting email from the python.org domain again.

Mark Sapiro wrote:
>Where are your aliases?
>
>The mail wrapper is compiled to to expect to be invoked by the 'mail'
>group. Postfix will invoke the wrapper as the user and that user's
>primary group corresponding to the owner of the aliases.db file in
>which the pipe command was found. I.e., if the aliases.db file is
>userx:groupy, postfix will invoke the wrapper as userx:groupx where
>groupx is userx's primary group.
>
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