[Mailman-Users] Email to list rejected

[Tom Barton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro at value.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 11:00 PM
> To: Tom Barton; 'mailman-users at python.org'
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Email to list rejected
> 
> Tom Barton wrote:
> 
> >For some reason email to my list is being rejected.  I've 
> set up a list with
> >my email address as the only member.  When I send email to 
> the list I get:
> >
> >   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> ><msd_60 at foo.sgi.com>
> >    (reason: 550 <msd_60 at foo.sgi.com>: Recipient address 
> rejected: User
> >unknown in local recipient table)
> 
> 
> This looks like an alias problem.

That was it.  There were two places in /etc/postfix/main.cf where alias_maps
was set.  The final one did not include the mailman aliases file.  I checked
that darned alias_maps variable 50 times, but didn't check to see if it was
set elsewhere in the file.  Sigh.  

Thanks, Mark!

Should I add this to the FAQ?

> >I'm using:
> >
> >foo:trb $ rpm -aq|grep mailman
> >mailman-2.1.4-83.4
> >foo:trb $ rpm -aq|grep postfix
> >postfix-2.1.1-1.4
> >foo:trb $ uname -a
> >Linux foo 2.6.5-7.104-default #1 Wed Jul 28 16:42:13 UTC 
> 2004 i686 i686 i386
> >GNU/Linux
> >
> >Mailman and postfix were installed via rpm.
> >
> >There are no entries in /etc/postfix/access.  Should there be?  
> >
> >Where/how is access to sending email to a list managed?  How 
> particular is
> >it in regard to address matching?  In other words, does 
> every part of an
> >address have to match the address in the list, or does it 
> just look at the
> >user id?
> 
> 
> It is done through aliases that match the "user id" and pipe the
> message to mailman.
> 
> 
> >The machine is accepting email from the same address when it 
> is sent to a
> >user on the machine, but it is rejected when sent to a Mailman list.
> >
> >I thought this would be in the FAQ, but I can't find it.  If 
> you can help me
> >figure this out, I'll add it.
> 
> 
> >Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
> 
> Did you look at FAQ articles 1.7 and 3.14? They both mention aliases.
> 
> Have you read the INSTALL and README.POSTFIX documents that are in the
> standard Mailman distribution? Are these or equivalents in your
> mailman rpm? If you don't have them, you can find them at
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mailman/mailman/
> 
> --
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>