[Mailman-Users] new users get welcome e-mails but posts aren'tgoing out

[Nathan K. Stazewski]

Thank you to Mark and Dan Phillips for pointing me in the direction of 
the proper FAQ section (as I grin sheepishly).  I've looked into those 
suggestions but don't think they're my problem.  If I send an e-mail 
from my mailman machine (using OS X's Mail program which is using 
localhost for smtp), the e-mail is sent to the list and goes out to all 
of the list recipients.  If I send out an e-mail from another computer, 
the e-mail never seems to reach mailman.  I started wondering if port 25 
was open, so I did a test.  I have the old (working) mailman machine 
available to me so I plugged that in and scanned its ports between 20 
and 30.  Both ports 22 and 25 were open on the machine.  I then plugged 
the new machine back in and scanned the same ports...this time finding 
only port 22 open.  I found some web pages saying that the issue would 
be a commented out line within postfix's master.cf file...

smtp      inet  n   -   n   -   -   smtpd



...but that line is not commented out.  This port definitely seems to be 
the issue (as it's the only difference I can find between the two 
machines) but I figured I'd see if there was something else I could be 
missing.  Basically right now my mailman machine accepts local mail but 
nothing else.

Nathan K. Stazewski
Assistant Director
Alumni Relations
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA  19081
610-957-6103
Fax: 610-328-7796
http://www.swarthmore.edu 



Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Nathan K. Stazewski wrote:
>
>   
>> I just did a fresh install of Mailman 2.1.8 
>> on OS X 10.4 (Tiger).  I have it to the point where I can create lists 
>> through the web interface and sign people up for the lists.   When I 
>> subscribe an address to a list (or create a new list) an e-mail is sent 
>> and received by the appropriate parties.  If I post to the listserv, 
>> though, no e-mail ever comes through.  I thought I'd improperly setup 
>> postfix until I noticed the other e-mails were being properly sent.  The 
>> mail server is apparently at least partially working, but I can't get a 
>> post through at all.  I've looked through the smtp and smtp-failure 
>> logs, and don't notice any obvious problems.  Anyone have any educated 
>> guesses as to some places that I should check (I'm not sure if this is a 
>> postfix problem or a mailman problem currently).  I can definitely 
>> provide my current configuration settings if anyone has any ideas, but 
>> I'm not even sure what would be helpful right now.
>>     
>
>
> See both
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.014.htp>
> and
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.021.htp>.
>
>