[Mailman-Users] Re: No notification of new list created

[Michael Sullivan]

I found a log called /var/logs/mailman/smtp-failures that listed a
series of User Unknown errors for the list I tried to create this
morning.  My mailman documentation includes a file called INSTALL.REDHAT
which has a troubleshooting section.  The user unknown problem is listed
there.  It says that the reason this error shows up is because the
mailing list aliases have not been added to /etc/alases. I ran
/var/mailman/bin/rmlist on all my lists (including mailman) while
leaving their definitions in /etc/aliases.  I then ran newlist for a
list called mailman and went back to the smtp-failures log.  It showed
the error:  

Jun 26 22:03:03 2004 (4416) SMTP session failure: 553, 5.3.0
<mailman-bounces at espersunited.com>... User Unknown, msgid:
<mailman.1.1088305382.4419.mailman at espersunited.com> 

The time stamp was consistent with the time I created the list.  What
can I do about this?  The mailman definitions were still in
/etc/aliases.


On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:08, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> mailman hasn't been working right since Monday morning.  I thought it
> might be a sendmail problem because it stopped working after I started
> trying to alter sendmail.mc, but I just found a backup of /etc/mail from
> Sunday night when mailman was working and restored it, it mailman still
> doesn't work.  I issue the command /var/mailman/bin/newlist to create a
> new mailing list and then go through the prompts.  It gives me the
> additions to /etc/aliases file and then to run newaliases.  It then says
> that it's notifying the list owner (which I specify as
> michael at espersunited.com)  I never get the email though.  Should the
> creation of the newlist show up in the /var/mailman/logs directory,
> because /var/mailman/logs remains empty.  Are there any other log
> locations I should check?  Please help!