As it turns out, this was not a mailman issue, but a sendmail issue.
Sendmail is set to look up MTAAliases in our ldap database. Once I
changed the order of operations in the sendmail.mc 'AliasFile' directive
to look at the local aliases.mailman file first before checking the ldap
database, all worked as I felt it should.
Thank you.
Karen R McArthur wrote:
I'm placing mailman into production for the first time - and I have
approximately 2500 lists. Many of my lists work fine, but many do not.
On them, I receive a "user unknown" error. An example: when send to
the "seo" list, sendmail -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED] returns
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] User unknown"
I have the seo lines in aliases.mailman - and a strings on the
aliases.mailman.db returns correct data for the list. Some lists listed
in aliases.mailman AFTER seo work correctly, as do some lists listed
BEFORE it - elimination my idea of a corrupt file.
aliases.mailman was generated through "sudo -u mailman bin/genaliases -q
> aliases.mailman".
I have run newaliases.
I have restarted mailman.
sendmail.cf includes /etc/aliases.mailman in the ALiasFile line - and is
working as it should since some of my lists are working.
aliases.mailman is 28,896 lines long - is that a problem?
Any ideas?
ls -ltr aliases.mailman*
-rw-r--r-- 1 mailman root 1845123 Oct 15 12:37 aliases.mailman
-rw-r----- 1 root smmsp 2646016 Oct 15 12:38 aliases.mailman.db
strings aliases.mailman.db | grep seo
"|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces seo"
seo-bounces
"|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm seo"
seo-confirm
"|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave seo"
seo-leave
"|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join seo"
seo-join
"|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin seo"
seo-admin
"|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner seo"
seo-owner
"|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe seo"
seo-unsubscribe
"|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe seo"
seo-subscribe
"|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request seo"
seo-request
"|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post seo"
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