[Mailman-Users] Almost there

[Mike T. Gholson]

Nigel,

Everything below is in check.  Here's the response I get when
trying to confirm an address:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  check01-request at 240z.org
    Child process of list_request_transport transport returned 2 from
command:
    /home/mailman/mail/wrapper


Does this lead on to the possible problem?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel Metheringham [mailto:Nigel.Metheringham at VData.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 5:03 AM
> To: Mike T. Gholson
> Cc: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Almost there
> 
> 
> On 05 Jun 2001 22:31:00 -0700, Mike T. Gholson wrote:
> > Something is awry.  It's not creating the aliases correctly
> > in the /etc/aliases file.  I wonder if it's the path statement
> > in the LRU List statement.  It's got a 7 before the path.
> 
> Mailman doesn't add things to the aliases file, and the exim
> configuration I describe does not use aliases for the list functions -
> instead it tests the address (with appropriate prefix/suffix removal)
> against the existance of a file within the mailman tree - 
> this tells it
> whether a list exists.
> 
> > calling list_director director
> 
> it looks for a list construct...
> 
> > require_files = /home/mailman/lists/test22-users/config.db
> 
> checks whether the config.db file exists...
> 
> > test existence of /home/mailman/lists/test22-users/config.db
> >   required present, EACCES => unknown
> >   No such file or directory
> 
> and it either doesn't exist or is inacessible - actually check the
> permissions against the user that exim runs as (although that 
> appears to
> be root here so thats not the problem unless NFS is in the mix)
> 
> > list_director director skipped: file existence failure
> > test22-users at 240z.org is undeliverable:
> >   unknown local-part "test22-users" in domain "240z.org"
> > search_tidyup called
> 
> things to check:-
>   1. Is your mailman installation under /home/mailman
>      [if not change the macro at the top of the exim config]
> 
>   2. Does /home/mailman/lists/test22-users exist (or
>      appropriate prefixed directory from (1).
> 
>   3. Is there a config.db in there and accessible
>      (at least to see - don't need to be able to access it)
>      from the uid/gid that exim runs under.
> 
>     Nigel.
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