Problem with mailman

[David Dudek]

See my comments below:

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David Thomas Dudek     http://www.buffalo.edu/~dudek/

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Mark T. Valites wrote:

> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:12:47 -0500 (EST)
> From: Mark T. Valites <valites at geneseo.edu>
> Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: Problem with mailman
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> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, David Dudek wrote:
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> > I can't seem to get mailman working on my machine.  The machine is running
> > Red Hat 9.  I can see the web interface.  I've verified that people have
> > received subscription notices to the list I created.  I have sendmail
> > running.  The port for SMTP is open with my iptables firewall rules.  (I
> > even tested with iptables shut off.)  qrunner is running.  All the aliases
> > are in place in /etc/aliases and I ran newaliases.  Everything seems to be
> > fine, although "/sbin/service mailman start|stop|restart" has no output.
> > (It doesn't say "Starting:", "Stopping:", etc..)
> >
> > If I send mail to the list, it just isn't processed by mailman.  There are
> > no error email messages.  The message doesn't show up in the archive,
> > which I set up for the list.  None of the subscribers are receiving mail.
>
> Are there any mailman process running (ps auwwx | grep <your_mailman_id>)?
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> The archive is only built nightly by default, unless you use
> $mailman_bin_dir/arch to build them manually.
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> Have you regenerated the aliases (newaliases)?

Yes.

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> telnet localhost 25
> expn <a-test-list-name>
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> (assuming you have expn turn on...)

I don't have expn.  what's that?

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> Are you thinking of cutting over UB's LISTSERV by any chance?

No, this is just a personal project.

>
> I do more MailMan than I'd care to admit, so holler if you need help.
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> --
> Mark T. Valites
> Unix Systems Analyst
> CIT - SUNY Geneseo
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