Bug 68707 - Mailman w/Postfix gid woes
Summary: Mailman w/Postfix gid woes
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mailman
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John Dennis
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 50744 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-12 17:41 UTC by Kyle Rhorer
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-05-05 21:27:25 UTC
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Description Kyle Rhorer 2002-07-12 17:41:27 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.0.0-10; Linux; i686)

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.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


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-*


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