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On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:20, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Kirk R. Wythers wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > I was hoping for some advice as to easiest way to fix this. I'm always
> > nervous when something says "try tweaking the mail server", but I don't
> > want to re-run ./configure if it will mess up something that I have
> > already set up...
> 
> The easiest way would to be install Mailman via the port.  In particular, 
> /usr/ports/mail/mailman/Makefile suggests:
> 
> CONFIGURE_ARGS= --prefix=${MAILMANDIR} --with-python=${PYTHON_CMD} \
>                  --with-username=${MM_USERNAME} \
>                  --with-groupname=${MM_GROUPNAME} \
>                  --with-mail-gid=${MAIL_GID} --with-cgi-gid=${CGI_GID}
> 
so would this be done like this:
1.make deinstall
2.make reinstall --with-mail-gid=mail



> .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
> 
> # The Mailman port supports a number of variables that may be tweaked at
> # build time.  Getting the values of some of them right is crucial!
> # Perform a "make options" to see more information on these variables.
> #
> MM_USERNAME?=   mailman
> MM_USERID?=     91
> MM_GROUPNAME?=  ${MM_USERNAME}
> MM_GROUPID?=    ${MM_USERID}
> MM_DIR?=        mailman
> .if ${OSVERSION} >= 450000
> MAIL_GID?=      mailnull
> .else
> MAIL_GID?=      daemon
> .endif
> CGI_GID?=       www
> IMGDIR=         www/icons
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