On 03/18/09 13:24, Tim Ferguson wrote:
When I attempt to send a post to mailman, my GroupWise (8) GWIA sends
me an e-mail that completion of the e-mail has been delayed because
the server (Linux) is down, which it isn't. This message repeats
about every fifteen minutes or so.
Hum. This makes me believe that GWIA is not able to route email to the
MTA, Postfix (guessing based on previous post), running on the Linux host.
What (sub)domain are you using for your Mailman mailing lists? I.e. are
your mailing lists part of your ccs135.com domain as in
mailing_l...@ccs135.com or are they part of a sub-domain as in
mailing_l...@sub_domain.ccs135.com?
If you are using a sub-domain, do you have GWIA configured to route said
sub domain to your Linux host?
Since I've not worked with a Linux mail server before, what is the
procedure, what software do I need, to send and receive e-mail using
the Linux server as a regular user just to make sure mail is coming
and going or to see where it might be hanging up? For install, will
Thunderbird work, and, if so, how does it need to be configured? I
realize this is very elementary, but it isn't cooperating like
Novell's GroupWise or Microsoft's Exchange server.
To start with, make sure that root on the Linux host can send it's self
mail. I typically do something like
'ls' | mail -s "Testing..." root
Note the single quotes around ls to turn off all formatting that may
mess with the email.
If that does work, try the same type of thing but sending the email to
an address on the box with the full domain name on it. I.e.
'ls' | mail -s "Testing..." r...@example.net
If that works, try sending the email to somewhere non local to the system.
These all check "sending" of email, thus testing to make sure that your
MTA is installed, functional, and running. If the above tests pass,
then your problem likely is with routing email back in to the system.
If you can, please give more details about your install as they will
help in further diagnosing what is going on.
Grant. . . .
------------------------------------------------------
Mailman-Users mailing list
Mailman-Users@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3
Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
Unsubscribe:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
