[Mailman-Users] Unable to post to list - Command died with status 2

Jewel Brueggeman-Makda jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu
Mon Sep 12 09:45:58 EDT 2016


Good Morning,
I am in the process of setting up a replacement mailman server and so far things are going well. I did have 2.1.22 and upgraded to 2.1.23. The point where I am stuck is when I try to post to the mailman list I receive the following error below.  When I setup mailman I used the following command:
./configure --with-mail-gid=mailman --with-cgi-gid=apache

Upon seeing the error below I reran the configure command with the 'nobody' and reran the make, make install but that broke the web interface. I have searched online but cannot find a solution.

<mailman at box.washlaw.edu>: Command died with status 2:
    "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman". Command output: 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 "nobody".  Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group
    "mailman", or re-run configure,  providing the command line option
    `--with-mail-gid=nobody'.

Jewel Makda


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