I just installed Mailman 2.1.14 and got it integrated with Postfix, on
Ubuntu 11.04. I can create a list via the web admin interface, and add
members to it. But no such list exists if I run bin/list_lists. If I run
bin/newlist without creating a list via the web admin interface, I can send
mail to
All of this says that your web server does not point to the same
mailman instance that Postfix points to and that you are accessing
from the command line.
Check the path in your Mailman ScriptAlias in your web server config.
Yes the ScriptAlias is pointing to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/. At that location
mailman unix - n n - - pipe
flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py
${nexthop} ${user}
Per man page for master(5) this is supposed to mean that executabe
'mailman' is present relative to the path specified by postfix param
Web create is apparently creating lists because it either creates the
list or returns an error. If it succeeds, the list's
lists/LISTNAME/config.pck file is created somewhere.
You know the great thing about the Internet is that when you do
something dumb, you get to share it with lots of other