[Mailman-Users] Re: problems setting up a mailing list

[Justin Zygmont]

Thanks for your reply, I installed mailman with the 2.0.8 tarfile.  I
checked the tar file and mail/wrapper doesn't exist within it, i'm not
sure if this is supposed to get created diring the 'make install' or not.

I am running sendmail and I know it will resolv hostnames, etc fine.  All
mail services work ok for me.



On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, C. Bensend wrote:

>
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Justin Zygmont wrote:
>
> > here is the output of bin/check_perms:
> >
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >   File "bin/check_perms", line 281, in ?
> >     checkmail()
> >   File "bin/check_perms", line 202, in checkmail
> >     mode = statmode(wrapper)
> >   File "bin/check_perms", line 74, in statmode
> >     return os.stat(path)[ST_MODE]
> > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/mailman/mail/wrapper'
>
> OK, THAT is a problem.  If wrapper isn't there, no mail
> is going to be handled.
>
> How did you install Mailman (pardon me if you mentioned it in
> a previous post, I'm just catching up on my email)?  RPM?  From
> source?  .deb?
>
> > here's the last 10 lines of logs/smtp:
> >
> > Dec 30 03:37:02 2001 (32701) All recipients refused: host not found
> > Dec 30 03:37:02 2001 (32701) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.071 seconds
> > Dec 30 03:38:02 2001 (32704) All recipients refused: host not found
> > Dec 30 03:38:02 2001 (32704) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.123 seconds
> > Dec 30 03:38:02 2001 (32704) All recipients refused: host not found
> > Dec 30 03:38:02 2001 (32704) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.072 seconds
> > Dec 30 03:39:02 2001 (32717) All recipients refused: host not found
> > Dec 30 03:39:02 2001 (32717) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.115 seconds
> > Dec 30 03:39:03 2001 (32717) All recipients refused: host not found
> > Dec 30 03:39:03 2001 (32717) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.073 seconds


> It looks like your mailserver (or whatever host Mailman is
> running on) can't resolve hostnames.  Check to make sure
> your local host has both 'localhost' and 'your-FQDN' in
> it's /etc/hosts file to be safe.
>
> Also, make sure your MTA can resolve the hostname and domain
> you subscribed yourself with.  It'll need to relay from
> localhost (this can be a problem with QMail).
>
> Benny
>
>
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