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When mailman is launched from procmail, the gid of the process is
apparently assigned to the mailman user's primary group (from the passwd
file). I recompiled mailman with groupname AND mail-gid both set to
"mail", but still got the error ... until I edited passwd to change the
Here's the short version of my question: is there a reason why I should NOT
use the same group "mail" for both the "--with-groupname" and
"--with-mail-gid" configure options?
The long version is this. I'm having some difficulties with gids. I'm
running mailman 2.1.5 and sendmail 8.12.10 on a