[Mailman-Users] Why won't Mailman send mail?

[Mark Haney]

Okay, I followed the FAQ on why mailman won't send email to users.  The
big thing I noticed is that in /etc/passwd, the mailman account has a
default shell of /bin/false, is that supposed to be?  Also, there's no
home folder for the mailman user, so I can't check on the cron jobs.
Should I assume that, with no cron jobs running, no mail is going out?  

Aside from that here's a copy of /var/mail/maillog concerning my recent
attempt to send an email to the list, is this any help with figuring out
why I can't get list mail sent?

Jul 22 11:13:31 pcweb sendmail[30892]: h6MFDUrW030892:
from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=822, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=bay9-f62.bay9.hotmail.com [64.4.47.62]
Jul 22 11:13:32 pcweb sendmail[30893]: h6MFDUrW030892:
to="|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post weather",
ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (8/0), delay=00:00:01,
xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=prog, pri=31032, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Jul 22 11:13:34 pcweb sendmail[30895]: h6MFDYrW030895:
from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=1863, class=-30,
nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]

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[Mailman-Users] More madness

[Mark Haney]

I caved.  Jason Buscema gave me the answer to the problem with the RPM
version of mailman.  I re-installed it and added the 2 lines to make
mailman know what user/group to use.  Everything is peachy keen.  

I have 2 problems.  First, in the auto-respond message I get when
subscribing as a new user, the confirmation URL is still pointing to
http://porky.redhat., etc.  In the email itself, the reply-to
address is correct.  What's the fix to that?  I have the
DEFAULT_URL_HOST setup in mm_cfg.py.

Second, I receive the subscription emails and confirmation emails
correctly.  But when I post a new message to the list, I don't get the
actual posted message sent back to me.  It's obvious mailman/sendmail is
setup (mostly) correctly, but where's the new message going?  Remember,
I'm a newbie to mailman, so be gentle.  Thanks.


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RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman/Sendmail

[Mark Haney]

Jason K. Brandt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having problems getting mailman setup on a server using sendmail
> as the mail server.  This is a Redhat 9 machine, and is pretty much a
> default install, besides the fix for the bug from the default redhat
> install.  So mailman comes up and runs, I can setup lists, but when
> sending to the list nothing appears to happen.  Currently sendmail is
> listening on only the address for mail.rcctech.net, and I setup the
> mailing list on www.rcctech.net  , as well
> as mail.rcctech.net.  when running on mail.rcctech.net, I get an
> unknown user error, and on www.rcctech.net  
> nothing appears to happen at all.  Any ideas? 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> 
> Jason K. Brandt
> 
> Network Administrator/Consultant
> 
> RCC Technologies
> 
> Phone: 309-693-1985
> 
> Fax: 309-693-3083
> 
> 
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Are you certain mailman was running?  I have basically the same setup as
you, and I could get to the admin page and setup lists, etc, but was
getting no mail delivered to my test user.  Turns out mailman wasn't
running and I couldn't get it to start.  I eventually scrapped (at 2
this morning) the RPM version and built it from source.  I've not tested
it yet, but I'm hoping to do so later today.

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailing list setup

[Mark Haney]

Todd wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Mark Haney wrote:
>> Yeah I know I probably should build it from source, but really it's
>> gonna be a small list and almost no traffic.  I'd much prefer to use
>> the RPM version and be done with it.  I'm having an issue getting
>> qrunner to start.  Here's the message I'm getting:
>> 
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] markh]# /var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start Traceback
>>   (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line
>>   524, in ? main() File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 319,
>>   in main check_privs() File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line
>> 274, in check_privs gid = grp.getgrnam(mm_cfg.MAILMAN_GROUP)[2]
>> KeyError: getgrnam(): name not found
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] markh]#
>> 
>> I've been getting this all day, since I installed Mailman.  Any
>> ideas? I have everything else setup, I think but this is keeping me
>> from actually using the list.
> 
> Yes, that's one of the other deficiencies of the redhat 9 rpm.  You
> can either check the archives for this list and read the bugzilla
> reports about the problems (and solutions) for the redhat 9 rpm, or
> you can install mailman from source and be sure that any problems you
> have are yours and not the redhat mailman packager's.
> 
> At the very least, you should check out the mailman rpm from rawhide
> which is supposed to fix this and the lack of docs problems.  I don't
> use it myself so I can't tell you if it creates new problems or not. 
> Since redhat hasn't released an errata package for mailman (even
> though they clearly know a lot of people can't even get the service
> to start), I'd say they are not very focused on ensuring a bug free
> mailman rpm.  But feel free to suffer through the grief they'll cause
> you.  Just know that you will hear more than a few people here
> recommend that you install from source.
> 
> Please reply to the list so more people can offer solutions and gain
> from anything that's added to the archives. 
> 
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I apologize, I thought I was replying to the list.  Well, I'll give the
Rawhide version a shot and see what happens.  I'm not against building
from source, but since one RPM is already on there, upgrading it
shouldn't kill anything.  I'll let you know how it goes if you are
interested.

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[Mailman-Users] Mailing list setup

[Mark Haney]

I'm a newbie to Mailman and need a bit of help getting my setup
configured properly.  I have finally managed to get to the Admin page,
but at the bottom it has a link for all 'porky.devel.redhat.com' mailing
lists.  I've tried to configure mm_cfg.py to use the DEFAULT_URL_HOST,
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST values, but I keep getting an error that the host
'www' is undefined.  Where am I supposed to configure that in Mailman?
I have the FQDN's in DNS as well as /etc/hosts, so I know that's not it.
What am I missing?  Any help would be appreciated.

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