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cc: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
Subject: Re: ports, mailman and mail-gid.
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> I'm trying to get the mailman port installed with mail-gid=mailman
> (because I'm running Postfix), but I'm having zero success.

If you don't use postfix virtual and aliases files, the group needs to
be 'nobody'.

> I've tried make --with-mail-gid=mailman, --DWITH-MAIL-GID=mailman,
> -DWITH_MAIL-GID=mailman and several other combinations of the above. No
> matter what I do, the damn thing makes with mail-gid=mailnull.

I usually use:
 # portinstall -rR -m'MAIL_GID=nobody' mailman

Read the following for more details:
 /usr/local/share/doc/mailman/FreeBSD-post-install-notes

-- 
-jpeg.