Thanks to those of you who responded with some ideas about the bizarre behaviour I was getting while trying to send the notification to the list owner... Turns out that hidden deep somewhere in the machine was still one more reference to the machine's *old* hostname, left over from someone or something who decided that it was better to hard-code the hostname in than let the apps pull it from the one central location... so mailman was spouting mail out to something that didn't exist. Ergh.
Next issue! :-) This is one of those things that might have been omitted from the documentation in the interest of not insulting the folks who know what they're doing, but I'm left utterly confused and hope someone can provide some clarification for me.
Created my new list, and the URLs given are for "hostname/admin/listname" and "hostname/listinfo/listname". There's no dirs called "admin" or "listinfo" in the mailman directories or the apache server root or document root directories. There *are* some html files in the mailmandir/lists/listname.
The net result is that going to http://hostname/ correctly gives me the (non-mailman) documents I created in the (current) document root. However, it is not (obviously) serving pages for the mailman list - and going to hostname/admin/listname or hostname/listinfo/listname gives a not found.
So is there something I'm supposed to configure in mailman to make it see the document root? Or is there something I'm supposed to configure in apache to make it see the mailman html docs? Or should I set the document root in apache to something in the mailman directories?
Thanks, =) Amanda