[Mailman-Users] Subscribe/posts disappear into black hole

[Blandford, Simon [BSS Audio UK]]

One question for anyone who might know...

Why isn't qrunner mensioned in the "install" document?


Regards,
Simon.

-----Original Message-----
From: Philippe Rodriguez
[mailto:Philippe_Rodriguez at bevoux.grenoble.hp.com]
Sent: 23 March 2001 09:22
To: Blandford, Simon [BSS Audio UK]
Cc: 'mailman-users at python.org'
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribe/posts disappear into black hole



Did you set up the crontab ?
I suggest that you try :

<python home>/bin//python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner


(I had the same problem when I tried mailman at the first time ... and
 forgot to set up the crons for mailman user)

Phil.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Blandford, Simon [BSS Audio UK] wrote:

> When I confirm the subscription to a mailing list I am setting up or try
to
> post to it I get no response. No error, nothing appears on the list, no
new
> subscribers in the list, zip. I have set up /etc/virtusertable and
> /etc/aliases correctly, as far as I can tell, and if I change the lines in
> /etc/aliases that say (for an example mailing list called "news") from...
>
> mailman: <my admin email address>
> mailman-owner: mailman
> news: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post news"
> news-admin: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner news"
> news-request: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd news"
> news-owner: news-admin
>
> ...to say...
>
> mailman: <my admin email address>
> mailman-owner: mailman
> news: <my home email address>
> news-admin: <my home email address>
> news-request: <my home email address>
> news-owner: news-admin
>
> ...then I do indeed get the subscription requests and posts directed back
to
> me. So Sendmail must be doing it's stuff OK. So why doesn't Mailman
respond?
>
> Mailman is installed as user "mailman" with prefix "/home/mailman/".
>
> Regards,
> Simon Blandford.
>
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