[Mailman-Users] Email posts get posted to the wrong list!

[Richard Barrett]

On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 03:24  pm, Thomas Keller wrote:

> I have a similar problem if I have another mailing list on the mailing  
> list as a recipient.  I.e. each site in my company has its own list  
> and then I have a general list which sends to each of those lists.   
> The other time I have the problem is if I send an email to a list and  
> to other recipients as well, i.e. TO: list at myserver.com,  
> someone at yahoo.com.
>
> I have done newalias and can only assume that it is something in  
> mailman that does not like sending automatically to other lists or  
> when other recipients is included in the TO: line.
>

Assuming MM 2.1.x

Mailman has a feature which the above comments are describing.

Take a look at the first two option fields on the Privacy->Recipients  
web admin GUI page.

By default MM lists expect to be in the To: or Cc: mail header of  
messages incoming to it and holds for moderation posts for which this  
is not true.

You can adjust this behaviour via the GUI.

Thomas, in your case, put the higher level list in the regex for option  
2 'acceptable aliases'.

MM 2.0.13 had a similar feature but I cannot remember which of the web  
Admin GUI pages it was on.

But I do no think this is the same problem as was originally posted  
about by Bill Knechtel.

>
> At 07:43 AM 08/15/2003 -0500, Brent Herring wrote:
>> At the risk of stating the obvious, did you run the newaliases command
>> after editing your aliases file?
>>
>> Brent.
>>
>> D. Brent Herring
>> Computer Services
>> University of Central Arkansas
>>
>>
>> >>> "William Knechtel" <wknechtel at psi-np.org> 8/14/2003 4:24:24 PM >>>
>> Hello All!
>>
>> I'm trying to set up Mailman 2.1.2 on a FreeBSD 4.6 server.  I'm using
>> courier-MTA as my mail server software. I've gone through the install
>> procedure, and set up the prescribed umbrealla list called "mailman",
>> and set up a test list, which I'm calling "all".  When I sent a
>> message
>> to all at psi-np.org, it's not actually posting to that list, it's
>> posting
>> to mailman at psi-np.org! Now, I've redone the install process (twice),
>> I've verified that the aliases I'm giving courier are correct, and
>> still, the post end up posting to the wrong list.  The "mailman" list
>> respond to my attempts to post to "all" with:
>>
>> <snip>
>> Your mail to 'Mailman' with the subject
>>
>>     Please Work
>>
>> Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
>>
>> The reason it is being held:
>>
>>     Message has implicit destination
>>
>> Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
>> notification of the moderator's decision.  If you would like to cancel
>> this posting, please visit the following URL:
>> </snip>
>>
>> I'm at a loss here.  Would someone be so kind as to point me in the
>> right direction??  Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Kindest Regards,
>> Bill
>>
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