[Mailman-Users] Error: You are not authorized to create newmailinglists

[Mark Sapiro]

Thufir wrote:
>
>I get:
>
>Error: Illegal list name: comp.lang.java.help.3 at localhost
>
>from the web interface (I only typed in the part before @localhost)


Because Mailman doesn't like domains without at least one dot.


>although the CLI seems to handle it fine:
[...]
>I wonder where mailman is picking up the @localhost, because mm_cfg.py 
>should only use the FQDN:


The create CGI gets the domain from the host name in the URL. If you go
to <http://dur.bounceme.net/cgi-bin/mailman/create> it should work. If
you can't go there, see
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2012-August/073967.html>.

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