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[Simon Taylor <address@concealed>]

Hello again Thomas,

> I've done some digging and found that wwsympa.fcgi (sympa's web 
> interface) uses the Sympa mail.pm module to construct the message 
> using methods mail_file and sending to construct and place the message 
> in the "send spool"   That spool looks like its the "queue" directory 
> which is sympa/spool/msg in my configuration.  From there, the running 
> sympa.pl process is what monitors the "queue" directory for messages 
> waiting to be distributed.  Sympa.pl should move the message to the 
> "distribute" queue where it then adds the recipients and prepares the 
> message for the outbound mailer (postfix, sendmail, etc.).

That's very clear. Thanks for digging in to this.

> So, it sounds like the Sympa web interface isn't running as sympa.  
> The apache process hosting Sympa should be running as user sympa.
>
> Going back to the process list, check for sympa-httpd:

My site is setup differently.

I'm running one apache for the site, at is configured to run as user 
'apache' group 'apache'

[root@anzaas bin]# ps -ef|grep http
root     26310     1  0 Nov20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   29154 26310  0 04:23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   29155 26310  0 04:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
...

So I'm guessing that on your site you have set up a dedicated instance 
of apache and called the executable
"sympa-httpd" ?

If there is something in the documentation that says I have to do this, 
then I've missed it.

This is easy for me to set up and test however. I'll do that now.

Thanks again,

Simon