[afnog] mail man on freebsd

Patrick Okui pokui at psg.com
Mon May 18 14:13:15 UTC 2009


On 5/18/09 9:30 AM, Peter Hyeroba wrote:
> Hi guys I’ve been trying to install mailman on freebsd but have hit a snag.
>
> I get the the following error that I googled and found suggestions that
> didn’t quite work.
>
> <test at mailserver.domain>: Command died with status 2:
>
> "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post test". 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'.


What MTA are you using and what's the relevant mailman configuration?


> I’m installing it on freebsd 6.2, postfix-2.5.5 and mailman-2.1.11. I
> have installed and uninstalled and reinstalled using –with-mail-gid=nobody
>
> But that also creates its own problems.

Define "own problems"

--
patrick



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