[Mailman-Users] installation difficulties

[Emil Volcheck]

Hello, Mailman Users,

I'm working with my website administrator to resolve some difficulties
with our Mailman installation.  We're using RH Linux with Postfix MTA.
The installation passes the check scripts for permissions and database
consistency.  The web pages display fine.  But we can't send any mail
to any list.

Question: do the aliases for individual lists as well as the
"mailman" and "mailman-owner" have to be in /etc/aliases or
/etc/aliases.db or does it suffice to put them in the MySQL (?) 
databases used by Postfix?

The problem I'm encountering is that a posting to the list results
in error code 1:

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...Command died with status 1:
    "/home/mailman/scripts/post concerns"
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(The name of the list is "concerns".)

Also, I'm seeing the following error from qrunner in the
error log repeatedly:

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Nov 11 09:23:01 2002 qrunner(15283): Traceback (innermost last):
Nov 11 09:23:01 2002 qrunner(15283):   File
"/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 283, in ?
Nov 11 09:23:01 2002 qrunner(15283):      kids = main(lock)
Nov 11 09:23:01 2002 qrunner(15283):   File
"/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 253, in main
Nov 11 09:23:01 2002 qrunner(15283):      keepqueued =
dispose_message(mlist, msg, msgdata)
Nov 11 09:23:01 2002 qrunner(15283):   File
"/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 157, in dispose_message
Nov 11 09:23:01 2002 qrunner(15283):      mlist.ParseMailCommands(msg)
Nov 11 09:23:01 2002 qrunner(15283):   File
"/home/mailman/Mailman/MailCommandHandler.py", line 123, in
ParseMailCommands
Nov 11 09:23:01 2002 qrunner(15283):      precedence =
msg.get('precedence', '').lower()
Nov 11 09:23:01 2002 qrunner(15283): AttributeError :  'string' object
has no attribute 'lower' 
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I'd appreciate any pointers or suggestions.

Thanks in advance,

--Emil

Emil Volcheck
volcheck at acm.org