I'm placing mailman into production for the first time - and I have approximately 2500 lists. Many of my lists work fine, but many do not. On them, I receive a "user unknown" error. An example: when send to the "seo" list, sendmail -bv seo@lists.bates.edu returns "seo@lists.bates.edu... User unknown"
I have the seo lines in aliases.mailman - and a strings on the aliases.mailman.db returns correct data for the list. Some lists listed in aliases.mailman AFTER seo work correctly, as do some lists listed BEFORE it - elimination my idea of a corrupt file.
aliases.mailman was generated through "sudo -u mailman bin/genaliases -q
aliases.mailman". I have run newaliases. I have restarted mailman. sendmail.cf includes /etc/aliases.mailman in the ALiasFile line - and is working as it should since some of my lists are working.
aliases.mailman is 28,896 lines long - is that a problem?
Any ideas?
ls -ltr aliases.mailman* -rw-r--r-- 1 mailman root 1845123 Oct 15 12:37 aliases.mailman -rw-r----- 1 root smmsp 2646016 Oct 15 12:38 aliases.mailman.db
strings aliases.mailman.db | grep seo "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces seo" seo-bounces "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm seo" seo-confirm "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave seo" seo-leave "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join seo" seo-join "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin seo" seo-admin "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner seo" seo-owner "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe seo" seo-unsubscribe "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe seo" seo-subscribe "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request seo" seo-request "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post seo"
-- Karen R. McArthur <kmcarthu@bates.edu> Systems Administrator Information and Library Services, Bates College Lewiston, Maine 04240 USA ph:(207)786-8236 fax:(207)786-6057
If you find that everybody else is right and you're wrong, it might just be that you're thinking outside the box. The world is yet to catch up.
As it turns out, this was not a mailman issue, but a sendmail issue. Sendmail is set to look up MTAAliases in our ldap database. Once I changed the order of operations in the sendmail.mc 'AliasFile' directive to look at the local aliases.mailman file first before checking the ldap database, all worked as I felt it should.
Thank you.
Karen R McArthur wrote:
I'm placing mailman into production for the first time - and I have approximately 2500 lists. Many of my lists work fine, but many do not. On them, I receive a "user unknown" error. An example: when send to the "seo" list, sendmail -bv seo@lists.bates.edu returns "seo@lists.bates.edu... User unknown"
I have the seo lines in aliases.mailman - and a strings on the aliases.mailman.db returns correct data for the list. Some lists listed in aliases.mailman AFTER seo work correctly, as do some lists listed BEFORE it - elimination my idea of a corrupt file.
aliases.mailman was generated through "sudo -u mailman bin/genaliases -q
aliases.mailman". I have run newaliases. I have restarted mailman. sendmail.cf includes /etc/aliases.mailman in the ALiasFile line - and is working as it should since some of my lists are working.
aliases.mailman is 28,896 lines long - is that a problem?
Any ideas?
ls -ltr aliases.mailman* -rw-r--r-- 1 mailman root 1845123 Oct 15 12:37 aliases.mailman -rw-r----- 1 root smmsp 2646016 Oct 15 12:38 aliases.mailman.db
strings aliases.mailman.db | grep seo "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces seo" seo-bounces "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm seo" seo-confirm "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave seo" seo-leave "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join seo" seo-join "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin seo" seo-admin "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner seo" seo-owner "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe seo" seo-unsubscribe "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe seo" seo-subscribe "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request seo" seo-request "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post seo"
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