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I am running a server that handles a site (www.example.org) and will also run email through mail2.example.org. I am running the web interface for mailman through server.example.org, which is also the server name.

Mailman is not handling the administrative requests such as approving and discarding submissions.

This is my mm_cfg.py file:

from socket import *
try:
    fqdn = getfqdn()
except:
    fqdn = 'mm_cfg_has_unknown_host_domains'

DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'server.example.org'
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mail2.example.org'
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST,DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_LOCAL_DOMAIN = 'localhost'

MTA = 'Postfix'
POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [ 'mail2.example.org' ]

When I try to Approve or Discard messages through the web interface, nothing happens, the page reloads unchanged.

mailman.conf

ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
<Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/>
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI
    Require all granted
</Directory>


Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>
    Options MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
    AddDefaultCharset Off
</Directory>

RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ https://server.example.org/mailman/listinfo

I don't see any errors in any log files.

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms -f
No problems found

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url Importing fix_url... Running fix_url.fix_url()... Loading list mailman (locked) Saving list Loading list all (locked) Saving list Loading list siteadmin (locked) Saving list Finalizing

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I found the answer in /var/log/mailman/error

/var/log/mailman/error

admin(23367): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.15 -----] 
admin(23367): [----- Traceback ------] 
admin(23367): Traceback (most recent call last):
admin(23367):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main
admin(23367):     main()
admin(23367):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 180, in main
admin(23367):     process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata)
admin(23367):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 756, in process_form
admin(23367):     forward, forwardaddr)
admin(23367):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 167, in HandleRequest
admin(23367):     forward, addr)
admin(23367):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 270, in __handlepost
admin(23367):     msg = readMessage(path)
admin(23367):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 604, in readMessage
admin(23367):     fp = open(path)
admin(23367): IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/data/heldmsg-all-11.pck'
> Loading list siteadmin (locked)
> Saving list Finalizing

It was a file ownership / permissions issue.

Permissions for /var/lib/mailman/data are:

ls -lat /var/lib/mailman/data
total 20
drwxrwsr-x. 2 mailman mailman    74 Jul 21 06:48 .
-rw-------. 1 mailman mailman 17774 Jul 21 06:47 owner-bounces.mbox
-rw-r--r--. 1 mailman mailman     0 Jul 19 22:10 transport-mailman
drwxrwsr-x. 6 mailman mailman    55 Jul 13 20:37 ..
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 mailman mailman    25 Jul 13 20:37 sitelist.cfg -> /etc/mailman/sitelist.cfg

It's working.

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