<html><div style='background-color:'><P>Just want to make sure you are referring to adding the following lines in /etc/aliases:</P>
<P>mailman: my e-mail address<BR>mailman-owner: mailman<BR>I also previously went in and manually made an alias for the list name in this file hoping that would work; to no avail. I have run "newaliases" a couple of times just to make sure.</P>
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<P>>From: Keith Howanitz <HOWANITZ@NINDO.COM></P>
<DIV></DIV>>To: Marc Bitner <DBITMAN@HOTMAIL.COM>
<DIV></DIV>>CC: <MAILMAN-USERS@PYTHON.ORG>
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Couple of issues
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:45:22 -0500 (CDT)
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>I think your aliases are not working. If you are using sendmail (default
<DIV></DIV>>for Red Hat 7.1) you should have mailman entries in /etc/aliases and then
<DIV></DIV>>you should have run the command newaliases as root.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>--
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>-Keith
<DIV></DIV>>howanitz@nindo.com
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Marc Bitner wrote:
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>> > I have a couple of issues that I hope you would please help me with.
<DIV></DIV>> >
<DIV></DIV>> > First off, I am running Mailman v2.0.5 on a Red Hat 7.1 box.
<DIV></DIV>> >
<DIV></DIV>> > I can access the new list via the web...
<DIV></DIV>> >
<DIV></DIV>> > Here are the issues:
<DIV></DIV>> > 1.) Users cannot subscribe to the list via the web interface. The user can input all of their information (e-mail
<DIV></DIV>> > address & password), send it to the list and the list will send back a conformation e-mail. When the user replies to
<DIV></DIV>> > the conformation e-mail, it stops there. The user never receives notification that they have been added to the list.
<DIV></DIV>> > And if I look at the Subscriber list via the web interface, they are not there. But, if I look in
<DIV></DIV>> > /home/mailman/logs/subscribe it shows the new members membership as "Pending".
<DIV></DIV>> >
<DIV></DIV>> > But, I can go in through the admin interface and manually add them in. Then they will receive a notification that they
<DIV></DIV>> > have been added to the list and will give them the password that Mailman selected for them.
<DIV></DIV>> >
<DIV></DIV>> > 2.) Secondly, if you send a message to the list, it never goes anywhere. The message never gets sent out to the
<DIV></DIV>> > members of the list.
<DIV></DIV>>[SNIP]
<DIV></DIV>>
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