[Mailman-Users] new users get welcome e-mails but posts aren'tgoing out
Nathan K. Stazewski
nstazew1 at swarthmore.edu
Thu Jun 15 20:47:31 CEST 2006
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>.
>
>
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