Michael,

It sounds like you are having the same trouble I am. My first fix, for the 'Test' list was to explicitly put in RELAY lines in the access file for the domains of all my subscribers to try and eliminate the relay problem. This worked on the test list, and since my subscribers are from a narrow number of ISP's, I did it for my "live' lists.

Either way, I'm still only getting email to go to the archives but not to the list members. Let me know if you get it to work.

Luck, Peter Schoch

Peter Schoch Physics and CIS Sussex County Community College 1 College Hill Newton, NJ 07860 Office: 973-300-2342 pschoch@sussex.cc.nj.us FAX: 973-579-1620

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michael shiloh <michael@makingthings.com> 11/06/02 02:25PM >>> hi all,

configuration:

redhat 7.3 with most updates linux 2.4.9-21 python 1.5.2 sendmail 8.11.6 mailman 2.0.13 Apache 1.3.22

i'm having a bit of trouble getting mail sent out from my recently-installed list server. according to my sendmail documentation i'm allowing relay from my local host, and in fact in

/etc/mail/access

i have:

# Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.11.6/README.cf file for a description # of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file) # The /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.11.6/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc # package. # # by default we allow relaying from localhost... localhost.localdomain RELAY localhost RELAY 127.0.0.1 RELAY

the symptom is that i can access my list's subscription website and subscribe. i get the next page that says:

Confirmation from your email address is required, to prevent anyone from subscribing you without permission. Instructions are being sent to you at michael@ecsd.com.

and then i see in my /var/log/messages:

Nov 6 11:17:06 magritte sendmail[22687]: gA6JH6J22687: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<michael@ecsd.com>, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], reject=551 5.7.1 we do not relay

normally from this same host i can send email anywhere (including to michael@ecsd.com) so it is something that mailman is adding (or perhaps leaving off?).

normally i send email from pine, and i have in pine specifically set my domain. it occurred to me that i've never told mailman what domain to use. perhaps it's picking up some default which i never bothered setting? where would it get this info? not hostname, since that gives a valid address:

# hostname magritte.magrittesystems.com

any ideas gleefully accepted, with much appreciation.

michael