Greetings, list members! You may have heard my shout of triumph right over the Internet. I woke up this morning with the answer to this problem in my head. It is, as with most such things, a really simple problem and the answer was staring me in the face the whole time.
To recap the problem: My lists were all working perfectly, except that *I* was not receiving posts. The mail to the lists was being filtered from my own login account using procmail. My procmail filters were built on the assumption that mail from my personal address, (e.g., "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") to one of my lists ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]") would reach Mailman and would emerge as mail from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I was forgetting that the "To:" header DOESN'T CHANGE when Mailman forwards the message. Only the *envelope* address changes, to allow the output of Mailman to be accurately delivered to me. As an email admin for several years, I *knew* that. I have no idea what caused me to go blind to this simple fact as I configured procmail. <sigh> Not enough coffee, I guess. Anyway, for the record and for the benefit of anyone reading this thread in the archives, the root of the problem was that messages sent out by Mailman to me were going back into Mailman as a result of the "To:" header still pointing to the list. Mailman was finding the "X-BeenThere:" header and (correctly) sending the message to /dev/null, so to speak. Solution: At the beginning of ~/.procmailrc, add the following lines: :0: * ^X-BeenThere:.*$ $DEFAULT That's it! Adding these three lines made everything work perfectly. The only catch is that this rule has to be at the very top of the .procmailrc file, prior to any Mailman-related rules. Thanks to all, especially Raquel, for the replies to my question on-list. You folks got me asking the basic questions again, and I thereby found the obvious problem hidden inside its mask of subtle symptoms. :-) Kind regards, Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them [EMAIL PROTECTED] | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://www.4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999) ------------------------------------------------------ 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