[Pkg-exim4-users] help needed on exim4 permission's please.

Nigel Metheringham nigel.metheringham at dev.intechnology.co.uk
Thu Oct 13 15:51:45 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:38 +0100, kick wrote:
> hi,
> ive got a setup problem and im now on my 9th attempt at setting up 
> mailman with exim4 :(
> 
> im using debian sarge with kernel 2.6.8-2-386 on a firehol box with 
> ipmasq etc
> (exim4 , mailman & apache2 from apt-get sources)
> i ran "update-exim4.conf -o /etc/exim4/exim4.conf" to make my exim4.conf 
> file then added the instructions as in 
> http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html#roconf

Did you also add the main config settings bits - 
  http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html#maconf


> System Events=-=-=-=-=-=-=Oct 13 15:02:28 irc-mail-firewall Mailman 
> mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper 
> script to be executed as group "daemon", but the system's mail server 
> executed the mail script as group "mailman". Try tweaking the mail 
> server to run the script as group "daemon", or re-run configure, 
> providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'.

You should change the MM_GID setting which should currently look like
this:-
	MM_GID=mailman
to be
	MM_GID=daemon


	Nigel.




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