[Mailman-Users] mail not getting sent to list

Mike Chambers mesh at speakeasy.org
Sat Apr 14 23:41:15 CEST 2001


I found the problem, the link to the "wrapper" program in /etc/aliases was
wrong.

thanks for all of the help...

mike

mesh at speakeasy.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Kornblum" <jessek at speakeasy.org>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] mail not getting sent to list


>
> Mike Chambers wrote:
>
> > I set up a test account, and when i email to the account, the email is
> logged
> > into the archive, but it never gets sent to the list. I also don't
> receive
> > any email errors.
>
> Stupid question (along the lines of "is it plugged in?"): Is the test
> account
> subscribed to the e-mail list in question? You can check this by doing:
>
> $ /home/mailman/bin/list_members [listname]
>
> (My apologies for even asking this, but like all tech support calls, you
> have
> to start with the most basic errors...) :)
>
>
> > Anyone have any idea what might be going on, or where I should look to
> find
> > out (i.e. log files, etc). There is nothing in the mailmain/logs/errors
> file.
>
> Then perhaps checking that mail can get from your computer to the test
> account
>
> $ mail -s "test message" [test-account] < /etc/motd
>
> Check your mail queue to see if there's anything stuck in there
>
> $ mailq
>
> And finally check the mail log itself to see if there's any problems in
> there
>
> $ less /var/log/maillog      [for Sendmail, your MTA may be different]
>
>
> (And one other possible idea: Speakeasy was having some wicked bad
> problems
> with DNS recently that have seriously delayed mail delivery coming out of
> mail.speakeasy.org and mail.speakeasy.net. Maybe it's just held up on
> their
> end...)
>
> --
> - Jesse
>
>   People protest against fur instead of leather because
>   it's safer to dump paint on rich women than bikers.
>
>
>
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