Hello, I am setting up a brand new mailman server. After doing per the documentation, I tried creating a "testing" test mail list. However, I get an error that says "illegal list name: testing@myhost Any idea's on what I am missing? Here is the string. Thanks Elvis

# ./newlist testing Enter the email of the person running the list: elvis.fernandes@am.necel.com Initial testing password: Create a new, unpopulated mailing list.

Usage: ./newlist [options] [listname [listadmin-addr [admin-password]]]

Options:

-l language --language=language Make the list's preferred language `language', which must be a two letter language code.

-u urlhost --urlhost=urlhost Gives the list's web interface host name.

-e emailhost --emailhost=emailhost Gives the list's email domain name.

-q/--quiet Normally the administrator is notified by email (after a prompt) that their list has been created. This option suppresses the prompt and notification.

-h/--help Print this help text and exit.

You can specify as many of the arguments as you want on the command line: you will be prompted for the missing ones.

Every Mailman list has two parameters which define the default host name for outgoing email, and the default URL for all web interfaces. When you configured Mailman, certain defaults were calculated, but if you are running multiple virtual Mailman sites, then the defaults may not be appropriate for the list you are creating.

You also specify the domain to create your new list in by typing the command like so:

newlist --urlhost=www.mydom.ain mylist

where `www.mydom.ain' should be the base hostname for the URL to this virtual hosts's lists. E.g. with this setting people will view the general list overviews at http://www.mydom.ain/mailman/listinfo. Also, www.mydom.ain<http://www.mydom.ain/> should be a key in the VIRTUAL_HOSTS mapping in mm_cfg.py/Defaults.py if the email hostname to be automatically determined.

If you want the email hostname to be different from the one looked up by the VIRTUAL_HOSTS or if urlhost is not registered in VIRTUAL_HOSTS, you can specify `emailhost' like so:

newlist --urlhost=www.mydom.ain --emailhost=mydom.ain mylist

where `mydom.ain' is the mail domain name. If you don't specify emailhost but urlhost is not in the virtual host list, then mm_cfg.DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST will be used for the email interface.

For backward compatibility, you can also specify the domain to create your new list in by spelling the listname like so:

mylist@www.mydom.ain

where www.mydom.ain <http://www.mydom.ain/> is used for urlhost' but it will also be used for emailhost' if it is not found in the virtual host table. Note that '--urlhost' and '--emailhost' have precedence to this notation.

If you spell the list name as just `mylist', then the email hostname will be taken from DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST and the url will be taken from DEFAULT_URL (as defined in your Defaults.py file or overridden by settings in mm_cfg.py).

Note that listnames are forced to lowercase. Illegal list name: testing@myhost

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