ports, mailman and mail-gid.

Julien Gabel jpeg at thilelli.net
Tue Aug 10 11:36:25 PDT 2004


> I'm trying to get the mailman port installed with mail-gid=mailman
> (because I'm running Postfix), but I'm having zero success.

If you don't use postfix virtual and aliases files, the group needs to
be 'nobody'.

> I've tried make --with-mail-gid=mailman, --DWITH-MAIL-GID=mailman,
> -DWITH_MAIL-GID=mailman and several other combinations of the above. No
> matter what I do, the damn thing makes with mail-gid=mailnull.

I usually use:
 # portinstall -rR -m'MAIL_GID=nobody' mailman

Read the following for more details:
 /usr/local/share/doc/mailman/FreeBSD-post-install-notes

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-jpeg.



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