[Mailman-Users] Not receiving anything, debugging

ke-mailman at retriever.dyndns.org ke-mailman at retriever.dyndns.org
Wed Oct 8 07:06:29 CEST 2008


I've managed to set-up mailman, fighting exim every step of the way.
I'm on ubuntu gutsy.

I'm using these aliases in /etc/aliases:

mylist:              "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mylist" 
mylist-admin:        "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mylist"  
mylist-bounces:      "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mylist"
...

I see this in /var/log/exim4/mainlog:

2008-10-07 21:08:15 1KnQLP-0007aq-KE <= unsubscribed_user at mydomain.org U=some_user P=local S=535 id=20081008040815.GA29157 at mydomain.org
2008-10-07 21:08:16 1KnQLP-0007aq-KE => |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mylist <mylist at mydomain.org> R=system_aliases T=address_alias_pipe
2008-10-07 21:08:16 1KnQLP-0007aq-KE Completed
2008-10-07 21:09:49 1KnQMv-0007b3-Ig <= subscribed_user at mydomain.org U=some_user P=local S=543 id=20081008040949.GB29157 at mydomain.org
2008-10-07 21:09:50 1KnQMv-0007b3-Ig => |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mylist <mylist at mydomain.org> R=system_aliases T=address_alias_pipe
2008-10-07 21:09:50 1KnQMv-0007b3-Ig Completed

but I receive nothing (even though I allow non-subscribers to post),
and nothing gets archived (even though I have that enabled.)

Also, when I subscribe someone, they never get an email.

My /var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman looks like:

-rwxr-sr-x 1 root list 6948 2008-03-15 08:19 /var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman

It seems like there's still an awful lot misconfigured.
I think I could claw my way through it if there was any
logging but all I get is this:

# ls -l /var/log/mailman/
total 4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data list   0 2008-10-07 12:08 error
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data list 182 2008-10-07 21:51 subscribe

Doesn't mailman have any sort of logging ?


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