Re: [Mailman-Users] Group mismatch puzzle

2012-08-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lindsay Haisley wrote: > >What is the "mail wrapper script" to which the error message refers? $prefix/mail/mailman It is a compiled binary wrapper (source is src/mail-wrapper.c in the distribution) that ultimately calls one of the Python scripts in the scripts/ directory (e.g. scripts/post) to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group mismatch puzzle - SOLVED!

2012-08-27 Thread Lindsay Haisley
As I had begun to suspect, this had nothing to do with Mailman. I imported MySQL records from the old server for authenticating mail users and assigning virtual mailboxes. All of these contained numeric GID records appropriate for that installation, and the mail server indeed ran with that GID wh

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group mismatch puzzle

2012-08-27 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I've looked into the pickled files for the problem list with dumpdb and found no reference to the GID which might lock the "mail wrapper script" onto the group ID of the server from which the list was exported. Googling for "mail wrapper script" turns up lots of references, going back many years, t

[Mailman-Users] Group mismatch puzzle

2012-08-26 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I've set up mailman 2.1.15 on a new server, properly configured with "--with-mail-gid=mail" and I can create lists from scratch on it, and they appear to be working perfectly. I have a number of lists on an older server, however, (also running mailman) which I want to move to the new server. I ha