[Mailman-Users] mailman + exim, no mail to owners

[John W. Baxter]

On 5/18/06 10:24 AM, "Anne Ramey" <anne.ramey at ncmail.net> wrote:

> Anne Ramey wrote:
>> I've just switched over from sendmail to exim because of how well it
>> (supposedly) works with mailman, but now none of my owner posts are
>> going through...thus owners are not getting their notifications of
>> pending posts, etc.
>> 
>> It's happening for all my lists.  This is what's in the mailman logs:
>> May 18 11:43:51 2006 (1956) post to escml.field.all from
>> listname at lists.ncmail.net, size=5185,
>> message-id=<mailman.277.1147878675.1789.listname at lists.ncmail.net>, 2
>> failures
>> And there is nothing in the exim log.
>> 
>> Since the message are getting to mailman, I don't think it's a problem
>> with exim delivering the message to mailman, but there seems to be some
>> error in processing the data.  They just keep sitting in the retry
>> queue.  I'm not sure what to try next, please advise.
>>   
> Let me add that the main mailman messages are going through fine, and I
> see those sent in the exim logs, it is just these owner posts that don't
> show up in the logs.  Yes, it appears that exim is configured correctly,
> and like I said, the mail is getting to mailman to be posted to the
> owner fine, it's mailman that doesn't seem to be able to handle it.

OK (I really think I should have read that last part into what you wrote
first--sorry).

At this point, I'm having trouble imagining what is going wrong.  I can see
a failure if the "The list administrator email addresses." box on the
General page contains a bare local part, with sendmail having been
configured to qualify that and Exim not so configured, but I have trouble
coming up with customized Exim logging settings which would totally suppress
the logging of the unqualified address error that would result, while
letting Exim logging for proper messages happen.  And Mailman wouldn't know
the difference--it would do what it's always done.

The same logging argument would apply to Exim believing it isn't allowed to
relay the message to owner to whatever machine that would be a relay to.

It's someone else's turn.

  --John