[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.8 with sendmail

[Mark Sapiro]

Kaushal Shriyan wrote:

>On 6/26/06, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm guessing at this point that no mail is being successfully delivered
>> to Mailman. Have you installed aliases in sendmail's alias file and
>> run 'newalias'?
>
>I have added the following aliases in the /etc/aliases file and run
>newaliases next
>
>## test mailing list
>test:              "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post test"
>test-admin:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin test"
>test-bounces:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces test"
>test-confirm:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm test"
>test-join:         "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join test"
>test-leave:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave test"
>test-owner:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner test"
>test-request:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request test"
>test-subscribe:    "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe test"
>test-unsubscribe:  "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe test"


This looks correct.


>> Try confirming via web. Does that work?
>
>How do i confirm using web interface ??


Follow the link in the confirmation email.


>> When you reply to the confirmation by email, do you get any kind of
>> response - an undeliverable notice? What's in the sendmail logs?
>>
>
>I dont get any undeliverable notice, I get the below information in
>the sendmail maillog


I get a headache just looking at this, and I'm not sure I understand it.


>Jun 27 12:01:08 mydomain sendmail[14891]: k5R6V8aF014890:
>to=<test-request at mydomain.com>, ctladdr=<contact at mydomain.com>
>(504/504), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=32260,
>dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent


A message presumably delivered to test-request


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>Jun 27 12:04:53 mydomain sendmail[14952]: k5R6YraJ014952:
>from=<test-bounces at mydomain.com>, size=1485, class=-60, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<mailman.0.1151390093.14951.test at mydomain.com>, proto=ESMTP,
>daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]

A Mailman generated outgoing message from the test list.


>Jun 27 12:04:53 mydomain sendmail[14953]: k5R6YraJ014952:
>to=<mailman-owner at mydomain.com>, ctladdr=<test-bounces at mydomain.com>
>(501/501), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=139685,
>dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent


Delivered to mailman-owner. Why is the test list sending messages to
mailman-owner, not test-owner?


>Jun 27 12:04:53 mydomain sendmail[14954]: k5R6YrdR014954:
>from=<test-bounces at mydomain.com>, size=1805, class=-60, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<mailman.1.1151390093.14951.test at mydomain.com>, proto=ESMTP,
>daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]


A different Mailman generated outgoing message from the test list


>Jun 27 12:04:53 mydomain sendmail[14956]: k5R6YrdR014954:
>to=<kaushal at mydomain.com>, ctladdr=<test-bounces at mydomain.com>
>(501/501), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=139999,
>dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent


delivered to kaushal at mydomain.com


>Jun 27 12:05:37 mydomain sendmail[14964]: k5R6Za1v014964:
>from=<test-bounces at mydomain.com>, size=1603, class=-60, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<mailman.0.1151390136.14963.test at mydomain.com>, proto=ESMTP,
>daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]


And another Mailman generated outgoing message from the test list


>Jun 27 12:05:37 mydomain sendmail[14965]: k5R6Za1v014964:
>to=<contact at mydomain.com>, ctladdr=<test-bounces at mydomain.com>
>(501/501), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=139796,
>dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent


Delivered to contact at mydomain.com


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>Jun 27 12:06:23 mydomain sendmail[14973]: k5R6aNlg014973:
>Authentication-Warning: mydomain.com: apache set sender to
>contact at mydomain.com using -f
>Jun 27 12:06:23 mydomain sendmail[14973]: k5R6aNlg014973:
>from=contact at mydomain.com, size=1771, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<59320.127.0.0.1.1151390183.squirrel at mydomain.com>,
>relay=apache at localhost
>Jun 27 12:06:23 mydomain sendmail[14974]: STARTTLS=server,
>relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], version=TLSv1/SSLv3,
>verify=NO, cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits=256/256
>Jun 27 12:06:23 mydomain sendmail[14973]: STARTTLS=client,
>relay=[127.0.0.1], version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL,
>cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits=256/256
>Jun 27 12:06:24 mydomain sendmail[14974]: k5R6aNVB014974:
>from=<contact at mydomain.com>, size=1994, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<59320.127.0.0.1.1151390183.squirrel at mydomain.com>, proto=ESMTP,
>daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]


Message from contact at mydomain.com (squirrel mail)


>Jun 27 12:06:24 mydomain sendmail[14973]: k5R6aNlg014973:
>to=test-request at mydomain.com, ctladdr=contact at mydomain.com (504/504),
>delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=31771,
>relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k5R6aNVB014974
>Message accepted for delivery)


to test-request, relayed to local host [127.0.0.1]


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>Jun 27 12:06:24 mydomain sendmail[14975]: k5R6aNVB014974:
>to=<test-request at mydomain.com>, ctladdr=<contact at mydomain.com>
>(504/504), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=32260,
>dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent


and delivered to test-request.

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So it looks like all mail delivery is working. I note that all the
deliveries to list addresses say "mailer=local". I don't know if this
is normal or not. I think some MTAs would say "pipe" here rather than
local, but maybe not. Are there any list related mailboxes in
/var/spool/mail or wherever your local mailboxes are?

Have you ever gone to the web admindb interface to see if there are any
requests waiting owner/moderator approval?

Are all your Mailman queue runners running?

Go to
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.014.htp>
and check everything there.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan