On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 11:57:22PM +0100, Rich Lott wrote:

Hi

I have exim4 and mailman running successfully on my server. I have a
working list that runs at somelistname@artfulrobot.com and a working web
admin iface. All good.

I looked at the output from this command: $ exim4 -d -bt community@maybe.artfulrobot.com

to see why it was failing. Output below.

Basically, it seems that mm has not registered
community@maybe.artfulrobot.com in data/virtual-mailman.

Your debug message states:

file lookup required for community@maybe.artfulrobot.com in /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman lookup failed

Is that correct? (i.e., does /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman...) exist?

I've read lots of postings, docs etc. but gotten nowhere. I've tried
fiddling with /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py, adding things like:

For Exim and Mailman, I'd use the canonical document:

http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html

and that alone.

MTA=None (and MTA='None')

add_virtualhost('maybe.artfulrobot.com','maybe.artfulrobot.com' )

POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [ 'artfulrobot.com',
'maybe.artfulrobot.com']

I'd not bother with that sort of thing. Just use the tried-and-tested

http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html

Each change I've restarted MM. Tried and got the unrouteable error again.

If you're fiddling with Exim that probably needs HUPing.

-- "Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you? You really must try better with your beard." -- DoE to a fashion designer

Thanks Adam and Mark for your responses. I'm always amazed at the generosity of the open source community and I do appreciate it.

After about 4 hours fiddling I'd managed to find a fix. I think the main thing I was missing was that you have to run genaliases in order to update the lookup file.

I had read http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html but not found it particularly enlightening, esp. the exim section. I had read a lot more, too. Just search this list for "virutal domain" and you'll see how many others have problems too, and I read through lots of those!

In the end I found /usr/share/doc/mailman/README.Exim4.Debian.gz which was most helpful.

For the benefit of anyone reading this, I have learnt:

1. in mm_config, it says postfix but it means exim too. Unfortunate lexical obfuscation ;-)

2. virtual domains look like quite a hassle with postfix, but with exim they're easy as long as your lists all have unique names, regardless of their domain (or you have to run 2 installs of mm)

3. running genaliases is needed to update existing lists.

4. beyond the instructions in README.Exim4.Debian I added a line add_virtualhost('my.virt.host.com','my.virt.host.com') for each virtualhost. I'm not sure this is needed once it's listed in POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS but I'm not going to try to break it now I've finally got it working!

5. Exim +debconf rocks: debconf effortlessly ensured I avoided the pitfalls that seem so common from reports elsewhere on MTA config, and exim -d -bt some@email.address.com bends over backwards to tell you what it's doing.

Happy at last.

Good luck to everyone else!

Rich

On 06/08/11 23:57, Rich Lott wrote:

Hi

I have exim4 and mailman running successfully on my server. I have a working list that runs at somelistname@artfulrobot.com and a working web admin iface. All good.

But now I want to set up a new list under a subdomain for another client. This list name does not clash with my other list, and it is does not clash with a username on the server.

I set it up with this command

$ newlist -e maybe.artfulrobot.com -u artfulrobot.com community

I used the web iface to mass subscribe my own email address, and I got a "welcome" message. But when I try to send to the list, it bounces back.

Nb. I can email someotheruser@maybe.artfulrobot.com and receive it at someotheruser's normal user account.

I looked at the output from this command: $ exim4 -d -bt community@maybe.artfulrobot.com

to see why it was failing. Output below.

Basically, it seems that mm has not registered community@maybe.artfulrobot.com in data/virtual-mailman.

I've read lots of postings, docs etc. but gotten nowhere. I've tried fiddling with /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py, adding things like:

MTA=None (and MTA='None')

add_virtualhost('maybe.artfulrobot.com','maybe.artfulrobot.com' )

POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [ 'artfulrobot.com', 'maybe.artfulrobot.com']

Each change I've restarted MM. Tried and got the unrouteable error again.

Can anyone help?! thanks...

Rich

--------> mailman_router router <-------- local_part=community domain=maybe.artfulrobot.com checking domains cached yes match for +local_domains cached lookup data = NULL maybe.artfulrobot.com in "+local_domains"? yes (matched "+local_domains" - cached) checking require_files file check: /var/lib/mailman/lists/$local_part/config.pck expanded file: /var/lib/mailman/lists/community/config.pck stat() yielded 0 checking "condition" search_open: lsearch "/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman" search_find: file="/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman" key="community@maybe.artfulrobot.com" partial=-1 affix=NULL starflags=0 LRU list: :/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman :/etc/aliases End internal_search_find: file="/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman" type=lsearch key="community@maybe.artfulrobot.com" file lookup required for community@maybe.artfulrobot.com in /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman lookup failed mailman_router router skipped: condition failure no more routers search_tidyup called

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