Problem with mailman

[Mark T. Valites]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, David Dudek wrote:


> Are there any mailman process running (ps auwwx | grep
> <your_mailman_username>)?

You didn't answer this.

> Have you regenerated the aliases (newaliases)?

> Yes.

Just checking - did you also first add the lists to your alias file?

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

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

vrfy and expn are two command specified in the smtp rfc that help you
verify that an address is vaild. See section 3.3 of rfc 821 for additional
information:

http://www.sendmail.org/rfc/0821.html

(Don't worry, it's very readable)

Unless you've tweaked your sendmail, I doubt you're missing it.

Here's what I would do to test it:

prompt$ telnet <your_mailman_server> 25
Trying <your_mail_server_ip>...
Connected to <your_mail_server>.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 <your_mail_server> ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.9/8.12.9; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:54:12 -0500 (EST)
expn listname-l
250 2.1.5 <"|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post listname-l">

Let us know where that leaves you.

-- 
Mark T. Valites
Unix Systems Analyst
CIT - SUNY Geneseo
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