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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'.

> But I *do* use virtual and aliases files.  The group needs to be mailman.

Ok.

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

> Hmmm..I've been using % make install clean to install the ports and
> portupgrade to upgrade them.

Ok, so have you tried:
 # make MAIL_GID=nobody install clean

The "-m" option to portupgrade/portinstall is just what will be passed
to make as argument(s).

-- 
-jpeg.