[Mailman-Users] unknown mailer error 1 failures

[Dan Mick]

Do they literally say "listname"?  Is it possible that some alias has the
literal word "listname" in it instead of the real name of the list?

Todd Pfaff wrote:
> 
> We're using:
> 
> mailman-1.1
> python-1.5.2
> Solaris 2.6
> sendmail-8.9.3
> 
> Sometime during mass subscriptions, we get bounces to postmaster about
> 'unknown mailer error 1' delivery failures, like that included below.
> 
> A few of questions about this...
> 
> Does anyone know for certain what is the cause of these 'unknown' failures
> from sendmail?  Does it likely have to do with the smtp server refusing
> connections due to the sudden load generated by a lot of messages during a
> mass subscribe?  The only reason I suspect this is that I can only
> correlate these errors to times when a mass subscribe is being done.
> 
> Is there any simple way to make these bounces go to mailman-owner rather
> than to postmaster?
> 
> Is this something that has likely been fixed in mailman-2.0beta?
> 
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 
> > Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:13:24 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at somehost>
> > To: postmaster at somehost
> > Subject: Postmaster notify: unknown mailer error 1
> >
> > The original message was received at Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:13:14 -0400 (EDT)
> > from localhost
> >
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner listname"
> >     (expanded from: <listname-admin at somehost>)
> >
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > 554 "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner listname"... unknown mailer error 1
> >
> >    ----- Message header follows -----
> >
> > Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON>
> > Received: from localhost (localhost)
> >         by somehost  with internal id LAA06814;
> >         Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:13:14 -0400 (EDT)
> > Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:13:14 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
> > To: <listname-admin at somehost>
> > Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
> > Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
> >
> >    ----- Message body suppressed -----
> >
> >
> 
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