[Mailman-Users] Problem solved: it was the MTA

[Todd]

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Elena Fraboschi wrote:
> Thank you, Todd, for acting so irate ;-) about my bypassing the warnings
> and setting up sendmail "in the raw" as opposed to going to it via
> SMTPDirect.

I guess that's like 'tough love.'  ;-)

> I guess I have demonstrated to be truly a newbie but...
>
> there is hope for me.  I decided to look into the sendmail.cf

You are a brave soul.  I only edited sendmail.cf a few times before I
switched to postfix, which uses plain english for it's config file (I know,
what a weird idea :).

> file, and it turns out that somehow the rest of sendmail (including
> listserv) was working fine, but mailman was pickier, and wanted the
> canonical domain of the host given there, in full.  The canonical name was
> not there; instead, only the short name was given (it said "mafalda"
> instead of "mafalda.math.indiana.edu").  I edited sendmail.cf
>
> Dj$w.$m
>
> and now I can go back to having SMTPDirect.  Nifty.  Many thanks,
> best, elena

Cool.  Glad it's working.  Now you can enjoy playing with the more fun parts
of mailman.  Have a good time.

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