HI, I have an odd problem. I have over a hundred lists and all but one is working properly. The initial support call was a complaint that the mail server was bouncing back the emails sent to the list claiming that there was no such user (list-name).
I thought it was odd, so I rmlist -a and recreated it using newlist. I tested the list, mail went to the user and everyone was happy. Oddly, the mailserver bounced that night (we aren't sure why) but the next day I got another call about the same list. I thought that it was a fluke, maybe some weird setting had been reverted when the server bounced, so again I removed the list (rmlist but without removing the archives) and recreated the list using newlist. I tested the list by sending an email and everyone (except the administrator who now had to repopulate the list was happy) It is day 3. I got phone call today. The same list is broken again. All the other lists work fine but this one seems to be unrecognized by the system: Aug 2 13:36:36 mail postfix/smtpd[5008]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from sjc.mailserver.com[63.80.14.252]: 550 <qvc- [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table; from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> proto=ESMTP helo=<[172.16.246.5]> Aug 2 13:42:02 mail postfix/smtpd[5066]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from sjc.mailserver.com[63.80.14.252]: 550 <qvc- [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table; from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> proto=ESMTP helo=<[172.16.246.5]> Aug 2 13:45:31 mail postfix/pipe[6401]: 9E219166485D: to=<qvc- [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=cyrus, delay=0, status=bounced (data format error. Command output: qvc-requests: Mailbox does not exist ) Aug 2 13:57:17 corp-admin2 postfix/pipe[7594]: 222591665614: to=<qvc- [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=cyrus, delay=0, status=bounced (data format error. Command output: qvc-requests: Mailbox does not exist ) Aug 2 14:05:45 mail postfix/pipe[7722]: 34A081666003: to=<qvc- [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=cyrus, delay=0, status=bounced (data format error. Command output: qvc-requests: Mailbox does not exist ) I have spent the better part of 6 hours looking for a reason. I've checked permissions, not just with checkperms but manually, step by step, directory by directory comparing the broken list to a list that is known to be working. /private/var/mailman/archives/private/qvc-requests/database "other" perms must be 000 (fixing) drwxrwsr-x 3 root mailman 102 Jun 18 13:30 production drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 68 Jun 18 13:30 production.mbox drwxrwsr-x 10 root mailman 340 Aug 1 11:18 qvc-requests drwxrwsr-x 3 root mailman 102 Jul 26 09:02 qvc-requests.mbox /var/mailman/lists root# ls -l qvc-requests total 56 -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 3777 Aug 2 11:25 config.pck -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 3778 Aug 2 11:24 config.pck.last -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 11089 Aug 1 14:16 digest.mbox -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 131 Aug 1 10:24 pending.pck -rw-rw-r-- 1 www mailman 24 Aug 1 11:18 request.pck /var/mailman/archives/private/qvc-requests root# ls -l total 160 drwxrwsr-x 10 mailman mailman 340 Aug 1 14:16 2007-August -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2476 Aug 1 14:16 2007-August.txt drwxrwsr-x 28 mailman mailman 952 Jul 31 15:08 2007-July -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 66954 Jul 31 15:08 2007-July.txt drwxrwsr-x 7 root mailman 238 Aug 1 11:59 attachments drwxrwx--- 12 mailman mailman 408 Aug 1 14:16 database -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 1465 Aug 1 14:16 index.html -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 892 Aug 1 14:16 pipermail.pck I've checked the alias file in /var/mailman/data/aliases: (Everything looks ok) # STANZA START: qvc-requests # CREATED: Wed Aug 1 09:09:12 2007 qvc-requests: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman post qvc- requests" qvc-requests-admin: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman admin qvc- requests" qvc-requests-bounces: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman bounces qvc-requests" qvc-requests-confirm: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman confirm qvc-requests" qvc-requests-join: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman join qvc- requests" qvc-requests-leave: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman leave qvc- requests" qvc-requests-owner: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman owner qvc- requests" qvc-requests-request: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman request qvc-requests" qvc-requests-subscribe: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe qvc-requests" qvc-requests-unsubscribe: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe qvc-requests" # STANZA END: qvc-requests I've checked locks: - nothing regarding this list there. main.cf shows: alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/lmail/ company.aliases,hash:/var/mailman/data/aliases Where else can I check? Thank you ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py 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://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp