Problem with mailman

[David Dudek]

That did the trick for getting sendmail to listen.  However, mailman is
still not working.  I did the following:

[dudek at hal9000 mailman]$ telnet daviddudek.com 25
Trying 128.205.3.127...
Connected to hal9000.cit.buffalo.edu (128.205.3.127).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 hal9000.cit.buffalo.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.8/8.12.8; Wed, 29 Oct 2003
21:19:33 -0500
expn stoopid
502 5.7.0 Sorry, we do not allow this operation

Am I any closer to getting this working?

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

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Robert Meyer wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:58:42 -0800 (PST)
> From: Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: Problem with mailman
>
> If you're using sendmail, there is a line that you have to comment out and
> remake the sendmail.cf file.  Change the line:
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
> to
> dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
>
> I'll bet that is your problem with postfix, too.  Not sure what config in
> postfix handles that one.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Bob
> --- David Dudek <dudek at buffalo.edu> wrote:
> > As it turns out, it seems that the problem is with my machine accepting
> > connections on port 25.  It doesn't matter whether I'm running sendmail or
> > postfix, I still get the same response:
> >
> > [dudek at hal9000 ~]$ telnet hal9000.cit.buffalo.edu 25
> > Trying 128.205.3.127...
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> >
> >
> > However, If I try to connect via loopback:
> >
> > [dudek at hal9000 ~]$ telnet localhost 25
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > 220 daviddudek.com ESMTP Postfix
> >
> > Before someone suggests firewall config, let me note that for
> > troubleshooting purposes, I shut off iptables.  I even unloaded the kernel
> > modules just to be sure.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > --
> > David Thomas Dudek     http://www.buffalo.edu/~dudek/
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Mark T. Valites wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:13:59 -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
> > >
> > > 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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