Bug 68758 – mailman won't accept files from qmail run as group nofiles

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Phil White 2004-10-24 16:20:16 UTC]

qmail effectively cannot deliver messages to mailman due to mailman rejecting the delivery based on group ID.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge qmail
2.emerge mailman
3.hack qmail's control/virtualdomains to include the appropriate list.xxx.xxx domain and ship messages to it at qmail
4.set up a list (using ~mailman/bin/newlist)
5.set up qmail aliases
6.attempt to mail to the list

Actual Results:  
@40000000417c2cbf1029812c status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
@40000000417c2d12044d43d4 new msg 88296528
@40000000417c2d12044e64e4 info msg 88296528: bytes 454 from <relsqui@boogeyman.a
rmory.com> qp 14062 uid 1063
@40000000417c2d12090a27d4 starting delivery 628: msg 88296528 to local treasureh
[e-mail]
@40000000417c2d12090a991c status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
@40000000417c2d120a27b564 delivery 628: deferral: Group_mismatch_error.__Mailman
_expected_the_mail/wrapper_script_to_be_executed_as_group_"mailman",_but/the_sys
tem's_mail_server_executed_the_mail_script_as/group_"nofiles".__Try_tweaking_the
_mail_server_to_run_the/script_as_group_"mailman",_or_re-run_configure,_/providi
ng_the_command_line_option_`--with-mail-gid=nofiles'./
@40000000417c2d120a28c6d4 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20


Expected Results:  
It should deliver seamlessly and mailman should farm it out to the correct list.

It can supposedly be fixed by setting the MAILGID line in the mailman ebuild 
from the GID of mailman (280 on my box) to the GID of nofiles (200 on my box), 
although I'm still having problems after a re-emerge.

# cat /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mailman
|preline /var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post mailman

# ls -l /var/qmail/bin/preline
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root qmail 20584 Aug 11 05:03 /var/qmail/bin/preline

# ls -l /var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper
-rwxr-sr-x  1 mailman mailman 7260 Oct 19 04:54 /var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper

# emerge info
emerge info
Portage 2.0.51 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.6.8.1 
i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8.1 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat4 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
 /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/
alias /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoclean buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks 
sandbox userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X509 aalib accessibility acl acpi acpi4linux afs aim alsa amd apache2 apm 
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kerberos krb4 libg++ libwww lids live log4j lzw mad maildir makecheck memlimit 
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mysql mysqli nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh nas ncurses net 
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[Comment 1 Tuan Van (RETIRED) 2004-10-25 09:19:02 UTC]

there is also a guide in bug #57189 comment #4

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45439 ***