You either have not put the aliases (printed out when you created the list) into /etc/aliases -or- you have not run newaliases after editing the /etc/aliases file.
You can check out FAQ 3.14 which does a fairly good job of covering most post-install issues with Mailman version 2.0 Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 17:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings everyone! > > I am running mailman-2.0 on Redhat Linux 7.3. > > I have successfully installed mailman onto my server. I have sucessfully > added an admin and a few users through the web interface to a test list. > Unfortunately, when I try to send an email on the list, I get this: > > The original message was received at Thu, 29 May 2003 14:39:39 -0700 > from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (reason: 550 5.1.1 User unknown) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown > > Mailman is sending mail out to users who subscribe, but the list itself is > not operational. Is there a particular default setting I should look at? > > Thanks! > Colleen ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org