From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 15:41:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8CD737B401; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:41:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F4E43F85; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:41:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9042E3D29; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:41:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: wjv@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:41:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3E9DA3F5.15267.A404674@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: mail/mailman + Postfix X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:41:59 -0000 Hi, I was just reading README.POSTFIX from mailman. I found this: - When you configure Mailman, use the --with-mail-gid=mailman switch (actually, this will be the default if you configured Mailman after adding the `mailman' owner). Because the owner of the aliases.db file is `mailman', Postfix will execute Mailman's wrapper program as uid and gid mailman. But in the ouput from 'make options' I see: * MAIL_GID [mailnull] The group name or id under which your MTA performs mail delivery Getting the value of MAIL_GID right is crucial to getting Mailman to work with your MTA. By default this port works with Sendmail. If you're using an alternative MTA installed from ports, you should set MAIL_GID at build time according to the following table. You may use either the group name or the numerical GID. (Please contact this port's maintainer if you wish to fill in the blanks or report mistakes!) ---------------------------------------------------- MTA | MAIL_GID | Submitted by Exim3 | nobody (65534) | Exim4 | mail (6) | Postfix | nobody (65534) | Qmail | ??? | ---------------------------------------------------- It appears that the port is conflicting with the software recommendations. It also appears others have had similar issues: http://www.vmlinuz.ca/archives/elug/2003-01/msg00038.html I'm about to try MAIL_GID=mailman Cheers -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/