Bug 68707

Summary:	Mailman w/Postfix gid woes
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Kyle Rhorer <rhorer>
Component:	mailman	Assignee:	John Dennis <jdennis>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	chris.ricker, sergio_kessler
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Description Kyle Rhorer 2002-07-12 17:41:27 UTC

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Description of problem:
Mailman as deliverd with RHL 7.x is apparently compiled --with-mail-gid='mail' which probably works with Sendmail.  However, when using Postfix as the MTA, that configuration of Mailman won't work.  Possible fixes: compile Postfix to use gid 'mail' or split mailman into mailman-core, mailman-sendmail, and mailman-postfix.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHL with Postfix as MTA instead of Sendmail
2. Install Mailman binary RPM
3. Attempt to make Mailman work
 

Actual Results:  Attempts to send mail to a Mailman-managed list return the well-known gid mismatch error.

Expected Results:  Should have worked without incident

Additional info:

This problem can be resolved by compiling Mailman from SRPM with --with-mail-gid='mailman', but that presupposes that gcc and supporting packages have been installed.  Not necessarily the case on a stripped-down single-purpose server.  Plus, it shouldn't be necessary for the user to recompile.

Comment 1 Chris Ricker 2003-01-10 07:02:51 UTC

*** Bug 50744 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Chris Ricker 2003-04-26 12:51:58 UTC

This is fixed in RHL 8.0 / 9, isn't it?

Comment 3 John Dennis 2003-04-28 14:49:41 UTC

Actually I don't think it is if I understand the issue. I believe that postfix
runs as the user/group 'postfix' and this is not in the list of mail users in
the mailman spec file. Adding it would be trivial.

Comment 4 John Dennis 2003-05-05 21:27:25 UTC

added postfix to list of groups, time to close this out, should be in
mailman-2.1.2-*