[Mailman-Users] only administrator getting messages posted
Mark Sapiro
msapiro at value.net
Mon Jun 19 20:27:50 CEST 2006
Steve Sullam wrote:
>
>I run genlaliases in /usr/local/mailman/bin and I get this:
>
>
>mailman: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"
>mailman-admin: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman"
>mailman-bounces: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman"
>mailman-confirm: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman"
>mailman-join: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman"
>mailman-leave: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman"
>mailman-owner: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman"
>mailman-request: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman"
>mailman-subscribe: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman"
>mailman-unsubscribe: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman"
>
>When I add these aliases to /etc/aliases and I run newaliases all
>messages bounce back.
Why? What does the sendmail log say. What does the bounce notice say?
>When I alias these accounts to my account at
>least it doesn't bounce back. I can use the mass subscription to setup
>accounts and these accounts can have password reminders sent to them,
>but the posting doesn't work. I haven't been able to understand this
>process so maybe someone can send me a link to explain this better.
You need those aliases in order to deliver mail to Mailman, i.e. pipe
the message incoming message to Mailman's wrapper program.
This could be a smrsh problem or a group mismatch problem depending on
why the mail is rejected.
See item 3 in
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.014.htp>
and also see
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.016.htp>.
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