Error in Creating Mailing List

Edit httpd.conf and change -99 to nobody.

 

Check permissions on /etc/group make sure they are 644

 

I am currently having this problem as well on one of my servers. I have checked the permissions on /etc/group and they are correct. I am currious about this suggestion though.

Edit httpd.conf and change -99 to nobody.

Was that supposed to be httpd.conf or another file. httpd.conf doesn't sound right to me.

 

Hmm,

Looks like the user mailman didn't exist in /etc/group or /etc/passwd. It appears that cpanel didn't create the user when it installed itself. Therefore I have manually added it to those files. Now when I try to create a list I get

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System response (ignore if list created, contact your admin if list couldn't be created):

/var/cpanel/users/mailman
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/var/cpanel/users/mailman doesn't exist on the server, but it also doesn't exist on any of my other servers either. Therefore I'm not too sure where to go from here. Should I be creating a user called mailman on the server instead of just adding entries to /etc/group and /etc/passwd? If so, can I just make up any password for the user?

 

Hi

I have the same problem with this too!

Thanks,

 

Add the mailman user.. Make sure all mailman programs and directories are owned by him now, +s (cpanel default normally)

save the below file as:

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py

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# -*- python -*-

# Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

&&&This module contains your site-specific settings.
From a brand new distribution it should be copied to mm_cfg.py. If you
already have an mm_cfg.py, be careful to add in only the new settings you
want. Mailman's installation procedure will never overwrite your mm_cfg.py
file.

The complete set of distributed defaults, with documentation, are in the file
Defaults.py. In mm_cfg.py, override only those you want to change, after the

from Defaults import *

line (see below).

Note that these are just default settings; many can be overridden via the
administrator and user interfaces on a per-list or per-user basis.

&&&
###############################################
# Here's where we get the distributed defaults.

from Defaults import *

##################################################
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