and...@excaliburworld.com wrote: > >>Bill Catambay wrote: >>>Here's a couple of questions while I sit idly by as posts to the >>>mailing list build up in my inbox: >>> >>>1. Anyone know the missing ingredient (in tech terms) that might >>>clue in the "night watchman" on what needs to be done to make >>>foo-list-mod work? >> >>This might not be helpful, depending on the mail server, but has >>someone run "newaliases" to make sure those aliases in the file have >>actually been made active? >> >>(This isn't a necessary step for all mail servers, but it seems >>likely given your bounce message. Goodness knows I forgot to do it >>a few times back when I was using sendmail on my list server.) >> > >The night tech guy confirmed that they are active (although I don't >know how he confirmed it). Given that there were two alias changes, >and since I *know* that the first alias did take effect (i.e., the >foo-list email now comes to me instead of posting to the list), I'd >assume that the 2nd alias took effect. Also, they're both in a file >(along with other mailing list related aliases), and I believe they >processed that file of aliases (rather than doing each alias >manually). > >At this point, I wish the aliases did not take effect, because then >I'd at least still be able to get posts to the mailing list.
The lists.sonic.net domain has 2 MXs (mailin-01.mx.sonic.net and mailin-02.mx.sonic.net) and each of those has 4 IP addresses, so there are potentially 8 servers that can receive the domain's mail. I'm guessing, but I suspect the aliases were changed on the Mailman server so thay mail that reaches that server for foo-list and foo-list-mod will be properly handled, but the missing piece is relaying the mail from the 8 MX servers to the Mailman server. This was already being done for the foo-list address so changing that alias on the Mailman host worked, but foo-list-mod is not an address that the 8 MXs know to relay to the Mailman server. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org