[Mailman-Users] Desparation...

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

rjones at email.unc.edu wrote:

> Unfortunately, I cannot get the Mailman script to
> accept incoming messages and distribute them... Messages are returned
> with the statment "user unknown" for messages sent to the listserv,
> just as though I had sent a message to the server with a random 30
> digit number as the user.
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to mail.usstudents.org.:
> >>> RCPT To:<russ at usstudents.org>
> <<< 550 5.1.1 <russ at usstudents.org>... User unknown
> 550 5.1.1 <russ at usstudents.org>... User unknown

    Obvious question: does the account 'russ' actually exist on that server/domain pair?

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