[Mailman-Users] Messages have stopped getting delivered to mailinglists

[Mark Sapiro]

Williams, Theona wrote:
>
>I have reviewed several of the previous posting on this problem but do
>not find a resolution. I have been using Mailman version 2.1.9 for about
>3 months. A few days ago, mail delivered to all mailing list began to
>bounce. I have not made any changes but I believe the mailman user id
>was altered by the system administrator to add a password was added.


That should have no effect.


>I
>have updated the mailman user to not require a password.  I have ran
>check_perms and found a few errors which were corrected.  I have checked
>the etc/aliases file and all entries appear to be fine.  The aliases
>file does not appear to have changed. See below example of entry:
>
> 
>
># mailman aliases
>
>
>mailman:            "|/u001/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"
>
>
>mailman-admin:      "|/u001/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman"
>
>
>mailman-bounces:    "|/u001/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman"
>
>
>mailman-confirm:    "|/u001/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman"
>
>
>mailman-join:       "|/u001/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman"
>
>
>mailman-leave:      "|/u001/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman"
>
>
>mailman-owner:      "|/u001/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman"
>
>
>mailman-request:    "|/u001/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman"
>
>
>mailman-subscribe:  "|/u001/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman"
>
>
>mailman-unsubscribe:"|/u001/mailman/mail/mailman unsunscribe mailman"
>
>
> 
>
>I then restarted sendmail and mailman but I am still receiving the below
>errors. 
>
> 
>
>Error messages in /var/log/mailman/error file:
>
>Jun 05 08:35:02 2008 post(15152): post script, list not found: mailman


There seems to be some problem with where things are. Mailman will not
start if there is no 'mailman' list so there must be one, yet the post
script invoked by the wrapper at /u001/mailman/mail/mailman can't find
it.


>I have checked the mailman lists folder and it contains the following
>files
>
>-rwxrwxrwx    1 mailman  mailman       238 Apr 16 06:36 request.pck
>
>
>-rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman      3772 Jun  5 08:00 config.pck.last
>
>
>-rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman      3772 Jun  5 09:00 config.pck


Is this a listing of the directory /u001/mailman/lists/mailman/ or is
it some other directory?

Is there a /u001/scripts/ directory? If so, what's the setting for
prefix in the /u001/scripts/paths.py file?


> I am able to subscribe to the lists via the web and receive the
>confirmation email but I am not able to send any email to the mailing
>lists.  I received an undelivered message. Sendmail on the server is
>working fine, if I send a mail directly to a unix user it is received.
>Could you please let me know what could have gone wrong? Any help would
>be deeply appreciated.


My guess is some things moved. The wrapper at
/u001/mailman/mail/mailman which is invoked by the sendmail aliases is
invoking a post script which is not looking for the mailman
installation in its current location.

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