[Mailman-Users] postfix integration question

[Mark Sapiro]

Mark A. Olbert wrote:

>I'm running into a GID problem in the interface between mailman and postfix. Here's the error message:
>
>(Command died with status 2: "/usr/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 "nogroup".  Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman", or re-run configure,  providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=nogroup'.)


The group of the user that ownes the aliases.db file in which the alias

mailman: "|/usr/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"

appears is 'nogroup' which is not what Mailman expects.


>In googling the problem I came across one purported solution which involved simply creating a separate aliases file for mailman aliases, whose group ownership was set to mailman. That didn't work, nor did setting the separate aliases file's group ownership to nogroup.


It is getting group 'nogroup' it wants group 'mailman'

The owner of the aliases.db file must have primary group 'mailman'. The
group of the file itself is irrelevant.

See <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node13.html> for the
recommended whay to set up Mailman with Postfix so that alias
Maintenance is automatic.

See also the "DELIVERY RIGHTS" paragraph in "man 8 local" and the FAQ
at <http://wiki.list.org/x/tYA9>.

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