[Mailman-Users] Sending mail to lists gets stuck

[Jon Carnes]

Check Sendmail and make sure that it will accept any connection from
your local box: netstat -na |grep 25

This is a *very* common problem with the RPM install.  The install
cannot reconfigure Sendmail for you so Sendmail is still stuck in its
high-security mode...

You can either check the archives for the fix, or simply read the
Mailman docs that were installed by the RPM - there is a file that
specifically talks about this problem with Sendmail and how to fix it.


On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 10:55, Reuven M. Lerner wrote:
> I've just installed Mailman on a Red Hat 7.2 machine (with all
> non-kernel updates).  I used the RPM version (2.0.13-1).  We're
> running the stock Sendmail version, also from an RPM (8.11.6-3).
> 
> Everything seemed trivially easy until it came time to send mail to
> members of a list.  The list members receive a welcome message.  I can
> send e-mail from the machine to the members, and vice-versa.
> 
> The only trouble, mail-wise, appears to be the Mailman lists: Anything
> that I send to a list disappears into a black hole, or so it seems.
> That is, if I send e-mail to the "reuventest" list, I see the
> following in the Sendmail logs:
> 
>     Sep 26 16:34:07 mail sendmail[32214]: g8QDY7j32213:
>     to="|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper post reuventest",
>     ctladdr=<reuventest at THEORG.org.il> (8/0), delay=00:00:00,
>     xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30047, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> 
> Following this, I get nothing at all.  In other words, the e-mail
> reached Mailman, but Mailman didn't pass the message along to members
> of the list.  Nothing appears in the archives either.
> 
> I followed the directions included in the RPM for configuring for Red
> Hat Linux.  I also used check_perms, and discovered that the
> permissions used by the RPM aren't acceptable to Mailman, since they
> use gid 0 rather than the "mailman" user's gid.  I used "check_perms
> -f" to fix this, and now check_perms indicates that everything is OK.
> 
> We're running behind a firewall with only ports 25 (SMTP), 53 (DNS),
> and 110 (POP3) open.  But I find it hard to believe that the firewall
> is causing any trouble here.  Neither the FAQ nor the manual were of
> any obvious help.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this?  If so, I would be happy to hear
> ways to get around this very puzzling problem.
> 
> Reuven
> 
> 
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