[Mailman-Users] Messages not going to list

W. Curtis Preston curtis at backupcentral.com
Mon Mar 19 06:32:03 CET 2001


But in a virtual host environment, I don't have root and I don't have 
control over the mail aliases file.  All mail for 'test' gets put in a file 
in my home directory.  Any ideas?

At 07:51 PM 3/18/2001 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
>I'm willing to bet that you didn't edit the email alias file to point to
>where the program is running such as below.  You should had gotten a message
>after you ran bin/newlist like the one below or there abouts....
>
>## test mailing list
>## created: 15-Mar-2001 mailman
>test:                "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test"
>test-admin:      "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test"
>test-request:    "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test"
>test-owner:      test-admin
>
>I could be wrong so don't quote me.
>
>Mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "W. Curtis Preston" <curtis at backupcentral.com>
>To: <mailman-users at python.org>
>Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 7:33 PM
>Subject: [Mailman-Users] Messages not going to list
>
>
> > I'm running my website (http://www.backupcentral.com) on a virtual host
> > provided by Apollo Hosting.  I've installed mailman using my user and
>group
> > id, and the WEB portion seems to run fine. HOWEVER, when I send email to
> > test at backupcentral.com, it just goes into the inbox for that user id, or
> > gets forwarded to me.  (One or the other, depending on if I set up a
> > separate email box for test or not.)
> >
> > The messages never get forwarded to the list software, and thus do not get
> > sent to the list.  Any ideas on how I can fix this?

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