THANK you jon, some very good advice indeed. Here are some snippets from /var/mailman/logs/post:
Dec 20 00:01:07 2001 (29336) post to test-list from [EMAIL PROTECTED], size=153, 2 failures Dec 20 00:01:07 2001 (29336) post to test-list from [EMAIL PROTECTED], size=870, 2 failures Dec 20 00:01:08 2001 (29336) post to test-list from [EMAIL PROTECTED], size=374, 1 failures Dec 20 00:01:08 2001 (29336) post to test-list from [EMAIL PROTECTED], size=307, 1 failures Dec 20 00:01:08 2001 (29336) post to test-list from [EMAIL PROTECTED], size=832, 2 failures Dec 20 00:01:08 2001 (29336) post to test-list from [EMAIL PROTECTED], size=396, 1 failures /var/mailman/logs/smtp: Dec 20 00:03:03 2001 (29414) All recipients refused: (111, 'Connection refused') Dec 20 00:03:03 2001 (29414) All recipients refused: (111, 'Connection refused') Dec 20 00:03:03 2001 (29414) smtp for 2 recips, completed in 0.011 seconds Dec 20 00:03:03 2001 (29414) All recipients refused: (111, 'Connection refused') Dec 20 00:03:03 2001 (29414) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.071 seconds /var/mailman/logs/smtp-failure: Dec 20 00:04:03 2001 (29429) -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ignore) Dec 20 00:04:03 2001 (29429) -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ignore) Dec 20 00:04:03 2001 (29429) -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ignore) Dec 20 00:04:03 2001 (29429) -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ignore) Dec 20 00:04:03 2001 (29429) -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ignore) as for the mta and smrsh, here is what i found in /etc/smrsh: 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 4 09:31 slocal -> /usr/lib/nmh/slocal* 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Dec 18 21:27 wrapper -> /var/mailman/mail/wrapper* and i checked and the local entries were indeed in /etc/mail/access but found this in the /etc/sendmail.cf Mprog, P=/usr/sbin/smrsh, Any further ideas or suggestions? Regards -- Jon Carnes wrote: >We really need to document this and add it to the FAQ... if it's not already >there. > >Check the mailman logs ~mailman/logs/... and see what they indicate. It's >likely one of two problems: > >The first is that the gid for your email wasn't correctly compiled >into the wrapper when you installed mailman. The wrapper will >print an error in the log files (~mailman/logs/...) telling you that it >got the wrong gid. This is a security measure and easy to fix, >but you have to re-install and specify the proper gid used by your >MTA (sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim, etc...) > >The second and more insidious problem is local routing. This is >all inside the MTA. You will need to make sure that localhost is >allowed to route via your MTA. Also Postfix has a few old >releases in which delivery via localhost is broken and cannot be >turned on. If you have Postfix, you must upgrade (or downgrade... >but who would do that!). Some MTA's such as Sendmail use >SMRSH and won't let the wrapper be used by the MTA until the >wrapper is properly identified to SMRSH. > >For Sendmail, check out /etc/mail/access and make sure that you >have entries similar to the following in there for "localhost": > localhost.localdomain RELAY > localhost RELAY > 127.0.0.1 RELAY > >Hope this helps, > >Jon Carnes > -- Michael B. Weiner, Linux+, Linux+ SME Systems Administrator/Partner The UserFriendly Network (UFN) -- Linux Registered User #94900 Have you been counted? http://counter.li.org PGP: 30 1D CC BA 30 30 63 35 CD 58 E0 89 A9 17 CC C0 8C 55 F7 72 ......... Escape the 'Gates' of Hell `:::' ....... ...... ::: * `::. ::' ::: .:: .:.::. .:: .:: `::. :' ::: :: :: :: :: :: :::. ::: .::. .:: ::. `::::. .:' ::. ...:::.....................::' .::::.. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users