[Mailman-Users] Interference from Cpanel mailman?

[Glen Low]

Hi All,

I've successfully implemented a fetchmail + mailman solution on my 
server, so that fetchmail will poll my web host for new mail and pipe 
it directly to mailman on my server. I've set up some PHP scripts on my 
web host server to "reverse proxy" the CGI interface from my server to 
the web host server, and I will regularly (or automatically) FTP up the 
archives. So far the setup seems to hang together fairly well, except 
for one thing.

I subscribe to the list and get a confirm message. I reply to the 
confirm message and the thelist-request mailbox receives it, and 
eventually I can see fetchmail delivering it to mailman, and the 
interface reports that I am subscribed, plus I get the "welcome to the 
list" message -- however -- I also got a Mail delivery failed message 
back, presumably from the (installed on my webhost?) Cpanel version of 
Mailman. I can't see  how it would have intercepted the message.

BTW, my instance of mailman is at www.pixelglow.com/lists/listinfo, 
whereas the Cpanel version is at www.pixelglow.com/mailman/listinfo.

Perhaps I haven't created all the mailboxes at the web host that I need?

mailman
mailman-admin
thelist
thelist-admin
thelist-bounces
thelist-confirm
thelist-join
thelist-leave
thelist-owner
thelist-request
thelist-subscribe
thelist-unsubscribe

Is the Cpanel mailman trying to intercept a mail going to one of the 
mailman-xxx mailboxes that I haven't created?

Here's a partial listing of the spurious email, names changed to 
protect the innocent :-) ...

 From Mailer-Daemon at ESC13.midphase.com Thu Jan 27 23:36:09 2005
Return-path: <>
Envelope-to: xxx.yyy at pixelglow.com
Delivery-date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:20:11 -0600
Received: from mailnull by ESC13.midphase.com with local (Exim 4.43)
	id 1CuBRL-0006jn-OB
	for xxx.yyy at pixelglow.com; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:20:11 -0600
X-Failed-Recipients: thelist-request at pixelglow.com
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon at ESC13.midphase.com>
To: xxx.yyy at pixelglow.com
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
Message-Id: <E1CuBRL-0006jn-OB at ESC13.midphase.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:20:11 -0600



This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

   pipe to |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman request 
thelist_pixelglow.com
     generated by thelist-request at pixelglow.com
     local delivery failed

The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:

------ pipe to |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman request 
thelist_pixelglow.com
        generated by thelist-request at pixelglow.com ------

mailcmd script, list not found: thelist_pixelglow.com

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <xxx.yyy at pixelglow.com>
Received: from [202.154.92.226] (helo=tibor.swiftdsl.com.au)
	by ESC13.midphase.com with esmtp (Exim 4.43)
	id 1CuBRK-0000NB-Ut
	for thelist-request at pixelglow.com; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:20:11 -0600
Received: (qmail 25165 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2005 15:24:07 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO [218.214.12.138]) ([218.214.12.138])
           (envelope-sender <xxx.yyy at pixelglow.com>)
           by tibor.swiftdsl.com.au (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
           for <thelist-request at pixelglow.com>; 27 Jan 2005 15:24:07 
-0000
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.0.1106838849.4362.thelist at pixelglow.com>
References: <mailman.0.1106838849.4362.thelist at pixelglow.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
Message-Id: <E2E93E1C-7076-11D9-A360-000D9337BC48 at pixelglow.com>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
From: Glen Low <xxx.yyy at pixelglow.com>
Subject: Re: confirm 0baaec9e8c3fbe754367e0add1846eed8d097681
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:19:49 +0800
To: thelist-request at pixelglow.com
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619)


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It's all very puzzling since the thelist-request obviously got through 
the system!



Cheers, Glen Low


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