mailman doesn't receive messages from sendmail on fresh F8 install

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Edward Kuns wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 09:55 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> THese look liked leaked file descriptors from mailman, but not sure they
>> are preventing sendmail from running.  Could you put the machine into
>> permissive mode and verify the mailman is working.
> 
> Done and yes it is working fine in permissive mode.
> 
> Note:  Sendmail is working perfectly except for an inability to forward
> messages to mailman.  The problem is that when messages arrive for a
> mailman mailing list, somewhere while being passed from sendmail to
> mailman, we get the selinux rejection quoted in my first Email.
> 
> My aliases file has:
> 
> mailman:   "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"
> 
> (this alias having been added by mailman) and when I post a message to
> that EMail address, I get the complaints quoted in the earlier EMail.
> In permissive mode, it works.
> 
> Thus, the complaint that python running with sendmail's ssecurity token
> needs to access something with a mailman-related security token.
> 
>> Did you change the configuration to use sendmail rather then using the
>> default internal mechanism of mailman to send mail.  (I am not a mailman
>> expert, so I am relaying questions from some co-workers.)
> 
> As you suggest, I have *not* changed mailman to use sendmail. 
> 
>    Thanks,
> 
>      Eddie

if you

chcon -t mailman_mail_exec_t /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman

Does it work?

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