Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA SENDMAIL ISSUES Many newer versions of Sendmail come with a restricted execution utility called "smrsh", which limits the executables that sendmail can use as mail filter programs. You need to explicitly allow Mailman's wrapper program to be used with smrsh before it will work. If mail is not getting delivered to Mailman's wrapper program and you're getting an "operating system error" in your mail syslog, this could be your problem. One good way of doing this is to: - cd into /etc/smrsh (or where ever it happens to reside on your system, such as /var/smrsh or /usr/local/smrsh). - create a symbolic link to Mailman's wrapper program For example, if you've installed Mailman in the standard location, you can just execute these commands (you might have to do these as root): % cd /etc/smrsh % ln -s /home/mailman/mail/wrapper wrapper One complication: if you're running Majordomo and Mailman simultaneously (i.e. in the process of migrating from MD to MM :), then you might have a small problem because Majordomo also uses a program called `wrapper'. In this case, Paul Tomblin suggests calling the Mailman symlink `mailman_wrapper', and changing the alias entries to call this instead of `wrapper'. You might want to hack bin/newlist to output this instead. Local Variables: mode: text indent-tabs-mode: nil End: