All,
I am having some problems getting mailman to work, which are still
puzzling me, despite all the help that I've gotten from the list so far. I
decided that I would lay out my steps explicitly, and perhaps someone would
see something that I overlooked.
I am using Mailman 2.1.1 on RedHat 8.0.
First I downloaded and built mailman with the following configure options:
--with-mail-gid=exim --with-cgi-gid=apache
I then did a chown mailman:mailman /usr/local/mailman; chmod a+rx,g+ws
/usr/local/mailman
After configuring the web server, I went to the web interface and created a
new list. Even though I specified that the list owner was to receive a
notification email, no email was ever received, nor was an entry for any
such email in the log. I then subscribed my email address to the list,
once again not receiving any notification emails. My configuration in
exim.conf is as follows:
# Mailman macros
MAILMAN_HOME = /usr/local/mailman
MAILMAN_WRAP = MAILMAN_HOME/mail/mailman
MAILMAN_USER = mailman
MAILMAN_GROUP = mailman
mailman_router:
driver = accept
require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/$local_part/config.pck
local_part_suffix_optional
local_part_suffix = -bounces : -bounces+* : \
-confirm+* : -join : -leave : \
-owner : -request : -admin
transport = mailman_transport
mailman_transport:
driver = pipe
command = MAILMAN_WRAP \
'${if def:local_part_suffix \
{${sg{$local_part_suffix}{-(\\w+)(\\+.*)?}{\$1}}} \
{post}}' \
$local_part
current_directory = MAILMAN_HOME
home_directory = MAILMAN_HOME
user = MAILMAN_USER
group = MAILMAN_GROUP
I then sent a message to the list from another machine, and saw the
following in the logs:
2003-03-20 09:56:09 18w1Sj-0004CI-00 <= fmonkey@???
H=208-41-36-211.client.dsl.net (galadriel.fmonkey.net) [208.41.36.211]
P=esmtp S=1643 id=200303201501.h2KF11G29594@???
2003-03-20 09:56:09 18w1Sj-0004CI-00 ** bb@???
R=mailman_router T=mailman_transport: Child process of mailman_transport
transport returned 2 from command: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman
2003-03-20 09:56:09 18w1Sj-0004CO-00 <= <> R=18w1Sj-0004CI-00 U=exim
P=local S=2460
2003-03-20 09:56:09 18w1Sj-0004CI-00 Completed
I remember it being mentioned that this was a permissions error, so I
changed MAILMAN_GROUP in the above configuration to be "MAILMAN_GROUP=exim"
and performed the same test. Now I get this in the log:
2003-03-20 09:58:29 18w1Uz-0004Cy-00 <= fmonkey@???
H=208-41-36-211.client.dsl.net (galadriel.fmonkey.net) [208.41.36.211]
P=esmtp S=1643 id=200303201503.h2KF3L929603@???
2003-03-20 09:58:29 18w1Uz-0004Cy-00 => bb <bb@???>
R=mailman_router T=mailman_transport
2003-03-20 09:58:29 18w1Uz-0004Cy-00 Completed
*But I never get any messages*!! The error log for mailman is empty. WTF
am I doing wrong (and believe me, I am sure it is me who is doing something
wrong!). :) Thanks for everyone's help and patience.
ahp
