[Mailman-Users] Email sent to list isn't delivered?

[Steff Watkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailman-users-bounces+s.watkins=nhm.ac.uk at python.org 
> [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+s.watkins=nhm.ac.uk at python.org] 
> On Behalf Of Martijn de Munnik
> Sent: 12 May 2010 14:05
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Email sent to list isn't delivered?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I installed and configured Mailman on Solaris with Postfix. 
> Everything seems to work except sending emails to the list :(
> 
> I can subscribe to the list and get the confirmation email, 
> also the lists admin gets an email about the subscription. 
> But when I send an email to the list nobody on the list gets 
> that email?
> 
> After some postfix processing the mail is successfully delivered to
> mailman:

> ---
> # pwd
> /opt/youngguns/mailman
> # ls -la
> total 66
> drwxrwsr-x  20 root     mailman       20 Apr 28 09:30 .
> drwxr-xr-x  16 root     root          16 Apr 28 09:23 ..
> drwxrwsr-x  11 root     mailman       70 Apr 28 11:24 Mailman
> drwxrwsr-x   4 root     mailman        4 Apr 28 09:30 archives
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman       42 Apr 28 11:25 bin
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman       13 Apr 28 09:48 cgi-bin
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman       12 Apr 28 09:48 cron
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman        7 May 12 14:34 data
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman        7 Apr 28 09:48 icons
> drwxrwsr-x   6 root     mailman        6 May  7 16:05 lists
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman        4 May 12 14:44 locks
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman        8 May  7 16:06 logs
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman        3 Apr 28 09:48 mail
> drwxrwsr-x  38 root     mailman       38 Apr 28 09:31 messages
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman        2 Apr 28 09:30 pythonlib
> drwxrwsr-x  11 root     mailman       11 Apr 28 10:32 qfiles
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman       16 Apr 28 09:49 scripts
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman        2 Apr 28 09:30 spam
> drwxrwsr-x  39 root     mailman       39 Apr 28 09:31 templates
> drwxrwsr-x   4 root     mailman       19 Apr 28 09:48 tests
> --- 
> 
> When I run as root I only get a warning, no errors:

Hi,

 you don't say what the "effective user-id" of the various qrunner
processes is/are?

If they were running as user root (very bad idea. Don't do it unless you
really have to kids! ..And even then... Mm,kay?) then they would be able
to write to the data directory. Similarly, if the user that your mailman
installation runs under is NOT a part of the mailman group it would NOT
be able to write to the data/spool directories.

Can I suggest you look in your messages and syslog files to see if any
of the mailman processes have carped about not having write access to
some part of your installation. It's solaris so will probably be
/var/adm/message and /var/log/syslog although your setup may be
different.

I'd strongly suspect that this is probably a file/directory ownership
problem first off.

Good luck,
Steff
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Systems programmer			Email: s.watkins at nhm.ac.uk 
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