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lannocc
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 Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:15 pm Post subject: Mailman problems: group name "mailman" doesn't exi |
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I'm trying to get mailman up and running on my Gentoo box alongside postfix but I can't seem to get over this final hurdle. Here is what I get in my log when I try sending a message to one of my lists:
| Code: | Dec 1 15:47:28 jupiter2 postfix/smtpd[19851]: 70D562C82A1: client=unknown[192.168.1.61]
Dec 1 15:47:28 jupiter2 postfix/cleanup[19808]: 70D562C82A1: message-id=<41AE4C1E.2080005@atmreports.com>
Dec 1 15:47:28 jupiter2 postfix/qmgr[1027]: 70D562C82A1: from=<shawnw@atmreports.com>, size=909, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Dec 1 15:47:28 jupiter2 postfix/local[21592]: 70D562C82A1: to=<kilimanjaro@atmreports.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (Command died with status 8: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post kilimanjaro". Command output: Failure to find group name mailman. Try adding this group to your system, or re-run configure, providing an existing group name with the command line option --with-mail-gid. )
Dec 1 15:47:28 jupiter2 postfix/qmgr[1027]: 70D562C82A1: removed
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The pertinent part is Failure to find group name mailman. However I know that this group exists:
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$ grep mailman /etc/group
cron::16:cron,mailman
mailman::280:
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As you can see, group "mailman" exists with ID 280. I checked my ebuild file for mailman and MAILGID is indeed set to 280. I have tried re-merging multiple times and still receive this error. I have run check_perms and all permissions look okay.
What else can I do here? |
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langthang
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:54 am Post subject: |
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read these:
`less /usr/share/doc/mailman-*/README.gentoo.gz`
`less /usr/share/doc/mailman-*/README.POSTFIX.gz`
and check your /etc/postfix/main.cf for something similar (the line that contains mailman) to:
| Code: | owner_request_special = no
recipient_delimiter = +
alias_maps =
hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases,
mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-aliases.cf
virtual_alias_maps =
hash:/etc/mail/aliases
hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman,
mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual.cf |
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lannocc
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 1:14 am Post subject: |
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| Okay, I added the owner_request_special and recipient_delimiter options and restarted postfix. From the documentation I had thought that the other two modifications you suggested (alias_maps and virtual_alias_maps) would only need to happen if I wanted mailman to be able to automatically update the aliases when new lists are created, right? Am I mistaken in thinking that making those two changes won't help my current problem? |
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