[Mailman-Users] Problems with Mailman/Exim4 mailinglists for certain senders

Brad Knowles brad at shub-internet.org
Tue Nov 4 20:08:58 CET 2008


Nicolas Neuss wrote:

> An example is the list 'kurs-6484 at ruprecht.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de'.
> It seems that emails from Solaris/Sendmail systems do not get through,
> because the university mail server asks for the user 'kurs-6484' on my
> server, and is told that this user does not exist.  However, sending from
> other machines to this list (e.g. machines running Postfix or Exim4) seems
> to work without problems and the Exim 4 logs show that the mailman_router
> and mailman_transport is correctly used in that case.

Sounds to me like your aliases aren't set up properly.

> The error message I receive when I send from the Solaris system is as
> follows:

What do you actually get in your log files on your machine?  Check both your 
Exim logs and your Mailman logs.


Without this kind of information, you're flying blind ... into a Category 5 
hurricane ... in the Alps.  And you're probably in an unpressurized aircraft 
which isn't rated for that altitude, much less heavy weather.

The question now is -- do you have your instrument rating, or are you VFR only?

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