[Mailman-Users] administrative requests not being sent properly

[Mark Sapiro]

Chad Leigh wrote:
>
>I have a mailman installation I am responisible for (2.1.5).  The list 
>owners do not get any administrative emails (like pending requests).  
>However, the same email addresses subscribed to lists get the list 
>traffic fine and the people get all their normal emails ok.  So the 
>problem seems to lie with Mailman.
>
>Here is an example from the smtp-failure log file, which I believe is 
>all this admin stuff
>
>Oct 11 11:30:41 2004 (1875) delivery to user at domain.com failed with 
>code 451: Temporary local problem - please try later
>Oct 11 11:30:41 2004 (1875) All recipients refused: {'user at domain.com': 
>(451, 'Temporary local problem - please try later')}, msgid: 
><mailman.4.1097503200.29790.ederm-dev at domain.com>
>Oct 11 11:30:41 2004 (1875) delivery to user at domain.com failed with 
>code 451: Temporary local problem - please try later
>Oct 11 11:30:41 2004 (1875) All recipients refused: {'user at domain.com': 
>(451, 'Temporary local problem - please try later')}, msgid: 
><mailman.0.1097505161.30949.pa-members at domain.org>
>Oct 11 11:30:41 2004 (1875) delivery to user at domain.com failed with 
>code 451: Temporary local problem - please try later
>Oct 11 11:30:41 2004 (1875) All recipients refused: {'user at domain.com': 
>(451, 'Temporary local problem - please try later')}, msgid: 
><mailman.21.1097506077.1873.roselawn@ domain.com>
>Oct 11 11:30:41 2004 (1875) delivery to user at domain.com failed with 
>code 451: Temporary local problem - please try later
>
>
>Again, this seems to only affect notices for the admin like pending 
>requests etc.   user at domain (and it happens with everyone who is a list 
>owner it appears) gets mail from Mailman as a list user and normal non 
>Mailman mail just fine.

I believe these messages are first sent to the listname-owner at domain
address and then resent to the actual owner addresses. Perhaps there
is some problem with this process. What happens if you mail
listname-owner at domain directly?

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