How can I tell if mailman is actually running. I can not find an entry if
I run ps -aux. I can mail my server and the aliases appear to work.
When I mail one of my lists nothing ever gets through, and nothing
is sent out. All the html features appear to work. I can change
options, and if I make a test list it tells me of the new list but never
responds.
I have added the alias info into my /etc/aliases file and run newaliases.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
MikeT
SciTech Software Inc, Michael E. Todd System Administrator 505 Wall Street Chico, CA 95928 530.894.8400 ext 151
Did you set the crontabs for mailman? it sounds obvious, but it's easily overlooked?
-Richard
-----Original Message----- From: mailman-users-admin@python.org [mailto:mailman-users-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of miket@scitechsoft.com Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 3:57 PM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] Is it running
How can I tell if mailman is actually running. I can not find an entry if I run ps -aux. I can mail my server and the aliases appear to work. When I mail one of my lists nothing ever gets through, and nothing is sent out. All the html features appear to work. I can change options, and if I make a test list it tells me of the new list but never responds.
I have added the alias info into my /etc/aliases file and run newaliases.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
MikeT
SciTech Software Inc, Michael E. Todd System Administrator 505 Wall Street Chico, CA 95928 530.894.8400 ext 151
Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
A lot of folks seem to have this misconception. Mailman does not run as a daemon on your server, rather it runs as a series of script which are kicked off via cron. Be sure to "su mailman" and check out the cron entries. If your cron table is blank, use the cron values found in ~mailman/cron/crontab.in
Jon Carnes ----- Original Message ----- From: <miket@scitechsoft.com> To: <mailman-users@python.org> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 3:57 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Is it running
How can I tell if mailman is actually running. I can not find an entry if I run ps -aux. I can mail my server and the aliases appear to work. When I mail one of my lists nothing ever gets through, and nothing is sent out. All the html features appear to work. I can change options, and if I make a test list it tells me of the new list but never responds.
I have added the alias info into my /etc/aliases file and run newaliases.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
MikeT
SciTech Software Inc, Michael E. Todd System Administrator 505 Wall Street Chico, CA 95928 530.894.8400 ext 151
Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Ok, so I have mailman set up on a machine running sendmail and FreeBSD 4.3. Lists are set up, newaliases ran, Cron's set up. Whwne I post to a list, the machine sends out email to everyone on the list *except* to address on the local domain, the all come up a 'User Unknown'. Judging by the fact that mailman is sending to everyone else just fine I'm assuming this is more of a sendmail issue, but I'm not sure. even if I try to send mail from the command line to my own email address: 'echo test | mail ridalski@nandomedia.com' I get the dreaded "user unknown' error. Can anyone tell me where I should start looking?
-Richard
First we have to know what your MTA is (Sendmail, Exim, Postfix, Qmail, ...) I'm guessing postfix, and that you have the setup so that your mail users are separate from the users on your box.... But that is just a guess.
You know we answer more MTA questions on this list than any Sendmail list I've ever been on...
Jon Carnes
On Friday 16 November 2001 17:13, Richard Idalski wrote:
Ok, so I have mailman set up on a machine running sendmail and FreeBSD 4.3. Lists are set up, newaliases ran, Cron's set up. Whwne I post to a list, the machine sends out email to everyone on the list *except* to address on the local domain, the all come up a 'User Unknown'. Judging by the fact that mailman is sending to everyone else just fine I'm assuming this is more of a sendmail issue, but I'm not sure. even if I try to send mail from the command line to my own email address: 'echo test | mail ridalski@nandomedia.com' I get the dreaded "user unknown' error. Can anyone tell me where I should start looking?
-Richard
Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Actuyally it's Sendmail, said so in my first sentence below ^_^, turns out I've already gotten this resloved, thanks to you guys, I simply wasn't using Fully quallified domain names, i thought I had set that, but a simply overlooked configuration was at fault...
Thanks,
Richard-----Original Message----- From: Jon Carnes [mailto:jonc@nc.rr.com] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 8:06 PM To: Richard Idalski; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd MailMan Problem...
First we have to know what your MTA is (Sendmail, Exim, Postfix, Qmail, ...) I'm guessing postfix, and that you have the setup so that your mail users are separate from the users on your box.... But that is just a guess.
You know we answer more MTA questions on this list than any Sendmail list I've ever been on...
Jon Carnes
On Friday 16 November 2001 17:13, Richard Idalski wrote:
Ok, so I have mailman set up on a machine running sendmail and FreeBSD 4.3. Lists are set up, newaliases ran, Cron's set up. Whwne I post to a list, the machine sends out email to everyone on the list *except* to address on the local domain, the all come up a 'User Unknown'. Judging by the fact that mailman is sending to everyone else just fine I'm assuming this is more of a sendmail issue, but I'm not sure. even if I try to send mail from the command line to my own email address: 'echo test | mail ridalski@nandomedia.com' I get the dreaded "user unknown' error. Can anyone tell me where I should start looking?
-Richard
Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
check out the /var/log/messages log, and there, you'll see an entry every minute telling you that mailman is running...
-----Original Message----- From: mailman-users-admin@python.org [mailto:mailman-users-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of Jon Carnes Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 5:44 AM To: miket@scitechsoft.com; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Is it running
A lot of folks seem to have this misconception. Mailman does not run as a daemon on your server, rather it runs as a series of script which are kicked off via cron. Be sure to "su mailman" and check out the cron entries. If your cron table is blank, use the cron values found in ~mailman/cron/crontab.in
Jon Carnes ----- Original Message ----- From: <miket@scitechsoft.com> To: <mailman-users@python.org> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 3:57 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Is it running
How can I tell if mailman is actually running. I can not find an entry if I run ps -aux. I can mail my server and the aliases appear to work. When I mail one of my lists nothing ever gets through, and nothing is sent out. All the html features appear to work. I can change options, and if I make a test list it tells me of the new list but never responds.
I have added the alias info into my /etc/aliases file and run newaliases.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
MikeT
SciTech Software Inc, Michael E. Todd System Administrator 505 Wall Street Chico, CA 95928 530.894.8400 ext 151
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