[TriLUG] Re: Mailman messages to -owner and -admin being treated as bounces in version 2.1.5

[Jeff Groves]

Jeff Groves wrote:
I recently, unexpectedly and, painfully upgraded my Mailman from 
version 1.0.13 (I think.. can't remember for sure) to version 2.1.5 
when I upgraded Red Hat 7.1 to Fedora Core 2.

I have got all of the quirks worked out except now all messages to the 
-owner and -admin accounts now are all treated as bounce messages.  Is 
this by design (I've seen some reference to the -admin addresses being 
deprecate) or did I break something?

Here is an example of the type of entries that I have in my 
/etc/mail/aliases file for each of my listservs that I administer:

## reunion mailing list
reunion:              "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post reunion"
reunion-admin:        "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman admin reunion"
reunion-bounces:      "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman bounces reunion"
reunion-confirm:      "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman confirm reunion"
reunion-join:         "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman join reunion"
reunion-leave:        "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman leave reunion"
reunion-owner:        "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman owner reunion"
reunion-request:      "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman request reunion"
reunion-subscribe:    "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe reunion"
reunion-unsubscribe:  "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe reunion"
Most notably, the messages that are generated to tell me when I need 
to moderate the listserv are they themselves treated as bounced 
messages and are handled by the default mailman listserv bounce handler.

This upgrade from Red Hat 7.1 to Fedora Core 2 has been an adventure.  
Glad that I took it, but I'm sure that I've a few more gray hairs as a 
result.

Jeff G.

I finally figured-out what was causing this bounce situation.  In the 
version of Mailman that I was using before I upgraded to 2.1.5, the 
"-owner" and "-admin" suffixed email addresses were synonymous and I had 
made entries in my /etc/mail/virtusertable file that reinforced that 
situation.

In 2.1.5, the two suffixed email addresses are no longer synonymous.  
The "-admin" is deprecated and generates a bounce while the "-owner" is 
translated to the administrators and moderators of the list by Mailman 
and retransmitted.

The entries in my /etc/mail/virtusertable were translating my listserv 
email addresses with "-owner" to "-admin" and causing the bounce situation.

Jeff G.
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