The esteemed TRON478 has said:

hi,

i have set up mailman on a suse machine with sendmail. when i open the administration site and subscribe i get mails (), but when i sent to the list, the mail never arrives.

i have added the aliases in the alias file:

## point mailing list point: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post point" point-admin: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin point"

(snip)

and used the command "newaliases" with no errors. MTA is "manual". whats wrong?

Your aliases file looks correct. I'm not sure what you mean by "manual." Sendmail normally runs as background daemons.

smmsp 6626 1 0 Feb 17 ? 0:01 /usr/lib/sendmail -Ac -q15m root 6628 1 0 Feb 17 ? 1:29 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m

Check that all your Mailman qrunners are running.

mailman 6903 1110 0 Mar 02 ? 0:01 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=RetryRunner:0:1 - mailman 6902 1110 0 Mar 02 ? 0:01 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=CommandRunner:0:1 mailman 6897 1110 0 Mar 02 ? 1:20 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=BounceRunner:0:1 mailman 6901 1110 0 Mar 02 ? 37:35 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=ArchRunner:0:1 -s mailman 6898 1110 0 Mar 02 ? 46:29 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=OutgoingRunner:0: mailman 6899 1110 0 Mar 02 ? 2:47 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=IncomingRunner:0: vancleef 602 493 0 10:24:12 pts/3 0:00 grep qrun mailman 6900 1110 0 Mar 02 ? 0:44 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=VirginRunner:0:1 mailman 6904 1110 0 Mar 02 ? 0:01 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=NewsRunner:0:1 -s

If you can send mail to and from a local non-Mailman account, then your sendmail installation is OK. Important thing is to configure sendmail properly and test it first. You should have sendmail checked out and running in daemon mode before trying to integrate it with Mailman

Try sending mail to the -owner account (point-owner) and see if it gets sent to the list administrator addresses. That bypasses any options in the Mailman configuration that apply to list postings. Once that is working try sending a message to your list address.

Read your logs. Sendmail shows the send to Mailman (example below, includes demime filter in the pipe)

Mar 5 05:32:12 julie sendmail[18773]: [ID 801593 mail.info] l25CW9qH018772: to= "|/usr/local/mailman/bin/demime -8bit -x '==' '==/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mylist'", ctladdr=<mylist@mylistlist.com> (1/0), delay=00:00:02, xde lay=00:00:02, mailer=prog, pri=33715, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

That says that the message went to Mailman. Go to the Mailman logs and check them. If Mailman is not sending out messages to list addresses, the logs generally tell you why it isn't.

Hank

On 3/8/07 1:52 AM, "TRON478" <tron478@googlemail.com> wrote:

i have set up mailman on a suse machine with sendmail. when i open the administration site and subscribe i get mails (), but when i sent to the list, the mail never arrives.

You sent the message to which I'm replying from Gmail. If you sent the test message that way, and it was intended to go back to the Gmail account, it won't.

Google is being helpful, and hiding the message that comes back from the list since it thinks you already have a copy.

I'm pretty sure this is in the Mailman FAQ, but I seem to be too dumb to find it. (This morning, anyhow.)

Of course, if you didn't send the test message from Gmail, then the above isn't the problem.

--John