Re: [exim] Problem with exim-4.74 + mailman

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 16:30:48 +0100 Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> Frank Elsner <Frank.Elsner@???> (Wed Feb 9 12:35:56 2011):
> >
> > Hallo all,
> >
> > after upgrade from exim-4.69 to exim-4.74 I ran into problems with the
> > mailman and my configuration. Exim is UID=103.
> >
> > 2011-02-09 11:28:25 1Pn7Hd-00077B-Dv unable to set gid=104 or uid=104 (euid=103): local delivery to list <list@???> transport=mailman_transport
> >
> > 2011-02-09 11:29:03 1Pn7IF-00077Z-AC unable to set gid=1 or uid=103 (euid=103): remote delivery to recipient@??? with transport=smtp
>
> I'm just asking myself, why exim want's to set the uid/gid for the SMTP
> transport… Where does the gid=1 come from? Is this the group "daemon" and the
> primary group or one of the supplementary of the "exim" user?

On the Solaris 10 system where I have the problem:

# grep :1: /etc/group
other::1:root


--Frank Elsner