thanks all, it was the crontab that wasn't installed! strangely this was not in the rpm -qi notes.
-----Original Message----- From: Richard Barrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 September 2003 14:15 To: Michael Bartlett Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] going nowhere?! On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 01:59 pm, Michael Bartlett wrote: > hi all, > > i've just started looking into getting mailman up and running. it > appears > that mailman was installed by redhat 8. i am aware that this version > may be > slightly out of date: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]# rpm -qa | grep mailman > mailman-2.0.13-1 > > anyway. > i'm running postfix and using virtual aliases. i was really battling > to get > this working: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2002-September/ > 022370.html > <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2002-September/ > 022370.html> > so i went for my own "cunning" solution whereby i do this > > ---- SNIP > #/etc/postfix/virtual.internet > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geeks > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > geeks-admin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > geeks-request > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > geeks-admin > > ---- SNIP > #/etc/postfix/aliases > ## geeks mailing list > ## created: 23-Sep-2003 mike > geeks: "|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper post geeks" > geeks-admin: "|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner geeks" > geeks-request: "|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd geeks" > geeks-owner: geeks-admin > > so that all seems to work per my /var/log/maillog when doing a reply > on a > web-requested subscription: > Sep 23 13:50:03 shiraz postfix/local[8838]: 9C874A0570: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >, > relay=local, delay=1, status=sent ("|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd > geeks") > > so off the mail goes to the wrapper - but thats the last i ever see of > it! > nothing happens! i've looked in /var/log/mailman, but don't seem to see > anything interesting there. any ideas as to whats going on here or > where i > could look for more information? > > cheers > michael > Has the Mailman user's crontab been installed so that the qrunner is being run regularly to deal with incomong mail? If not, then you may find the incoming mail is accumulating in your $prefix/files directory. ------------------------------------------------------ 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
