[ILUG] Mailman problems

[Fergal Moran]

CC'ing to ILUG..

> From: Ray Kelly [mailto:ray at skynet.ie] 
> Did the mailing list aliases actually get created?
> 
> what does "sendmail -bv mail_list" on the machine itself say
> 
> when adding a new list you should have been presented with 
> som "stuff" to paste into 
> your mail aliases, this is pretty obvious when you're using 
> the text mode to do so, 
> but seeing as I've not used the Wah Wah Wah interface to do 
> that in the past I can't comment on how it works
I am using the text mode to do it - and have added the aliases - my
mailing list is called test and /etc/aliases has

## test mailing list
## created: 15-Jul-2002 mailman
test:                    "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test"
test-admin:              "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test"
test-request:            "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test"
test-owner:              test-admin

However - a mail to any of these addresses produces a bounce (user not
found)

> on the command not found stuff, It's possible that mailman is 
> living in a chrooted jail & therefore isn't able to get out 
> of that to find the apps / libs which it needs to run! 
> (especially if it's not running as root) 
> How did you install it, from src or a package?
> 
I installed it from source and I made sure to set the --with-mail-gid to
the group that sendmail runs as (daemon) and to set the --with-cgi-gid
to the apache group (nobody) - it runs as mailman:mailman - I have
symlinked safe_finger to the mailman chroot jail (/home/mailman/bin) -
but this still doesn't work - however root doesn't get a command not
found message in this case - he gets the output of safe_finger mailed to
him instead (see first post).

Cheers

Fergal.