Hi folks,

I'm trying to configure a server with Sendmail and Mailman. I've been getting "Broken pipe" errors for a while, and have slowly been debugging. I fixed some permission issues, and changed the user that Mailman expects to be called from, among other things. Finally, I'd gone through everything I could think of, so I added a new test to see if it's the Mailman script or Sendmail that's causing the problem. Here's the error I'm getting now (stripped of timestamps and identifying information):

<-- MAIL FROM:[email protected]
Authentication-Warning: xxxxx.org: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.net [xx.xx.xxx.xxx] didn't use HELO protocol
--- 250 2.1.0 [email protected]... Sender ok
<-- RCPT TO: [email protected]
--- 250 2.1.5 [email protected]... Recipient ok
<-- DATA
--- 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
[email protected], size=20, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[email protected]>, proto=SMTP, relay=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.net [xx.xx.xxx.xxx]
--- 250 2.0.0 o6KMg2xZ025804 Message accepted for delivery
 alias [email protected] => "|/bin/echo foo"
 SYSERR(root): putbody: write error: Broken pipe
   0: fl=0x0, mode=20660: CHR: dev=0/15, ino=776, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0
   1: fl=0x1, mode=20660: CHR: dev=0/15, ino=776, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0
   2: fl=0x1, mode=20660: CHR: dev=0/15, ino=776, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0
   3: fl=0x2, mode=140777: SOCK localhost->[[UNIX: /dev/log]]
   5: fl=0x0, mode=100600: dev=8/3, ino=486765, nlink=1, u/gid=0/51, size=5
   6: fl=0x8000, mode=100640: dev=8/3, ino=65501, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=12288
   7: fl=0x8000, mode=100640: dev=8/3, ino=65501, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=12288
   8: fl=0x8000, mode=100640: dev=8/3, ino=65510, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=12288
   9: fl=0x8000, mode=100640: dev=8/3, ino=65510, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=12288
  10: fl=0x8000, mode=100640: dev=8/3, ino=64814, nlink=1, u/gid=0/51, size=12288
  11: fl=0x8000, mode=100640: dev=8/3, ino=64814, nlink=1, u/gid=0/51, size=12288
  12: fl=0x1, mode=100600: dev=8/3, ino=486767, nlink=1, u/gid=0/51, size=754
  13: fl=0x1, mode=10600: FIFO: dev=0/5, ino=7649785, nlink=1, u/gid=0/51, size=0
  14: fl=0x0, mode=10600: FIFO: dev=0/5, ino=7649786, nlink=1, u/gid=0/51, size=0
 MCI@0x0: NULL
 MCI@0x0: NULL
 to="|/bin/echo foo", [email protected] (8/0), delay=00:00:08, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30476, dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable
 o6KMsnxX025948: DSN: Service unavailable
 done; delay=00:00:08, ntries=1

The alias in /etc/aliases is:

 cmtest: "|/bin/echo foo"

As you can see, even when trying to pipe to /bin/echo I still get the same error. But I can't for the life of me figure out what else to check. Normal aliases work fine. Any ideas?

Thanks!