On 26 May 2004, at 22:57, Mark Smith wrote:
Hi,
I don't understand this message.
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post mug" (expanded from: <mug@lists.ulv.edu>)
----- Transcript of session follows ----- Mailman error: post got bad listname: mug 554 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post mug"... unknown mailer error 1
It means that although there was an alias which told your MTA to pass the message for that alias to Mailman's delivery script called 'post', the script failed when it tried to access the data structures associated with the list named 'mug'. You will find the message probably originates from $prefix/scripts/post around line 75 in the main() function if you are running MM 2.0.13
Does the list exist? Is the alias definition used by your MTA correct?
You do not say whether this is a new installation of Mailman or an established one which was working OK and is now giving problems, whether this is a new list or an existing list that did work and is now giving problems. Has anything significant changed/happened to the installation concerned that might have caused problems to start occuring? Have you tried running $prefix/bin/check_perms?
As a word of guidance, it is a good idea to mention what version of Mailman software you are having the problem with; from the error text it looks like you are running MM 2.0.x which is getting on a bit.
-- Mark Smith Unix/Linux System Administrator Office of Information Technology 909-593-3511 x4344 msmith@ulv.edu
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