Re: [cobalt-users] GNU Mailman on RaQ3: no message delivery

[Hendrik Runte <hr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Hendrik Runte wrote:
> 
> } Ok. Catch-all is disabled. But the problem remained. Running the
> wrapper
> } with ./usr/share/mailman/mail/wrapper post test or sending a mail to
> } test@<ip-address> return this error message:
> 
> My name is actually Brent Sims... I just happen to have this URL and
> like using it on this list.
> 
> 	Anywho... without seeing your aliases - specifically and
> only those for Mailman, there's not much I can do. However, if you
> are using an IP address as described in your message that may be the
> problem.
> 
> 	I've installed Mailman on dozens of servers. We've got quite
> a few high volume lists running on it (over 250 mb of email was
> spewed on one list yesterday) and they all work smooth and run true.
> The point is, don't quit. Mailman rocks - particularly if you keep
> the stale lock files cleaned up.
> 
> 	I'm still thinking you have a problem in your aliases. Or
> you need to uncheck "Accept Email For This Domain" for the account
> you set it up in or those IP addresses are causing your problem
> (I've never used an IP address for email so I'm not sure here).
> 
> 	While the error message you posted does contain a clue, I
> generate the same error message here by doing a manual removal of
> one of the names on one of our many lists than doing a ctrl c break
> in the middle of it. I've never tried running it with smersh though.
> Don't see much reason to as mailman does not run as a trusted user
> that can cause problems.
> 
> 	brent
> 
> 	Elmer Fuddpucker's WWW Directory
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> 
> 
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Ok. Hi, Brent :-)

Here is what I went through in detail on a RaQ3 (latest patches from cobalt) - installation from mailman-2.0.4.tar.gz:

1)root: creating a mailman directory:
/usr/share/mailman
setting rights and changing group as described in the manual on http://www.list.prg

2)admin: ./configure --prefix=/usr/share/mailman --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=httpd

3)admin: make install

4)root: patching httpd.conf in the virtual host settings of one vh:
# Mailman additions
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/share/mailman/cgi-bin/
Alias /pipermail/ /usr/share/mailman/archives/public/
<Directory /usr/share/mailman/archives>
  Options +FollowSymlinks
</Directory>  

5)root: /etc/smrsh/ ln -s /usr/share/mailman/mail/wrapper mailman_wrapper

6)running newlist for list called 'test'

7)inserting the newlist output into /etc/aliases :
test:           "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/wrapper post test"
test-admin:     "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test"                      
test-request:   "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test"                
test-owner:     test-admin 

8)root: #newaliases

Sending a mail with the ip-adress was just a try to get through because using all domains, ie test@xxxxxxxxxx or test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and so on, did not work: "no such user"

Hmmmm.


Regards,

Hendrik.