[Mailman-Users] list members treated as nonmembers problem

[Mark Sapiro]

Eric S. Johansson wrote:

>mailman 2.1.5 on gentoo
>
>I was upgrading from 2.0.God knows how old on a Red Hat eight system.  I 
>moved the list and archive directories over into the 2.1.5 hierarchy. 
>Whenever I send a message to a list, the message is held and I am told I 
>am not a member of that list even though I can see it in the Web user 
>interface.

The poster is validated as a list member in various ways depending in
particular on the Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py setting of
USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER. Read the comments about this and about
SENDER_HEADERS in Defaults.py, and also understand what headers are
put in your message and what envelope sender is set by your MUA/MTA.

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