mailman question[MAILER-DAEMON: Returned mail: see transcript for details]

[David Meyer]

I'm sure folks have seen this (many times) already, so
    thanks for the help up front.

So I'm trying to get mailman to run on FC3, and I am
    running into the following problem:
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be
> > executed as one of the following groups:
> > [mail, postfix, mailman, nobody],
> > but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group: "mailnull".
> > Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as one of these groups:
> > [mail, postfix, mailman, nobody],
> > or re-run configure providing the command line option:
> > '--with-mail-gid=mailnull'.
> > 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2

Since I installed mailman from the RPM, I didn't
    configure it. Further, sendmail.8.13.1 has a config
    option that looks like

# default UID (can be username or userid:groupid)
# O DefaultUser=mailnull

If you set DefaultUser to something else, everything else
    goes south...

Anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks, and have a safe and happy new year,

Dave

[David Meyer]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:45:21PM -0800, David Meyer wrote:
> > I'm sure folks have seen this (many times) already, so
> >    thanks for the help up front.
> >
> > So I'm trying to get mailman to run on FC3, and I am
> >    running into the following problem:
> > > > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > > > Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be
> > > > executed as one of the following groups:
> > > > [mail, postfix, mailman, nobody],
> > > > but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group: "mailnull".
> > > > Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as one of these groups:
> > > > [mail, postfix, mailman, nobody],
> > > > or re-run configure providing the command line option:
> > > > '--with-mail-gid=mailnull'.
> > > > 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2
> >
> > Since I installed mailman from the RPM, I didn't
> >    configure it. Further, sendmail.8.13.1 has a config
> >    option that looks like
> >
> > # default UID (can be username or userid:groupid)
> > # O DefaultUser=mailnull
> >
> > If you set DefaultUser to something else, everything else
> >    goes south...
> >
> > Anyone have a suggestion?
> >
> > Thanks, and have a safe and happy new year,
> >
> > Dave

Solved my own problem, at least in one way:

./configure --verbose --prefix=/var/mailman  --with-mail-gid=mailnull --with-cgi-gid=apache

Thanks,

Dave
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