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

[Elmer Fuddpucker <elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Hendrik Runte wrote:

} 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:

	First off, an actual mailman alias file (unedited) off one
of our servers:

our-family:		"|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post our-family"
our-family-admin:	"|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner our-family"
our-family-request:	"|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd our-family"
our-family-owner:	our-family-admin

	This is how I set them all up on whatever server the list
happens to run on. Just for the record, this is a private list for
the members of my family - it's not a client owned list.

	Second, if you are installing mailman as per the included
instructions, it ends up being a user on the server account itself.
Thus, if you named your server ns1.mydomain.com, to send mail to
your test list you would send it to test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - while a
single name will indeed work, and we run quite a few of them, for
the first list you might be better off trying something like
test-list as it is possible the test alias is in use somewhere else
on the machine - this would explain why you are only having problems
mailing the list but not with the other features. Even if you can
get it to work on some other domain, unless you are only using one
IP address on the machine for all the domains, your outbound mail
may get marked as spam.

	There are ways to make it do virtual hosts, but we run all
our lists off the machine name. With mailman the user can configure
the headers of the outbound mail so there server is all but
transparent. The point is don't try to get fancy until you get it
cooking.

	Make sure the domain name in the setup (the name this host
prefers) is the server name.

	The Cobalt's tend to make this a bit messy, particularly if
you did something like name the server ns1 but it should work just
fine. Once you get it sending mail, then you can tweak it to your
needs. The trick, if I may call it that, is to get something working
before trying to fancy it up.

	brent


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