Yes, I did specify the other ports needed in the necessary configurations.

You're right about "localhost" causing confusion, I switched to using the
IP address instead, the logs
showed that Mailman tried to connect on [::1] and there wasn't a response,
that might be from Mailman itself though as the
port is open.

I don't have a preference for IPv6.


-- 

Ibiam Chihurumnaya
[email protected]




On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 4:44 PM Stephen J. Turnbull <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Ibiam Chihurumnaya via Mailman-users writes:
>
>  > I do have both inet_interfaces and inet_protocols set to all.
>
> Note that that is just for Postfix.  You also need to specify where
> Dovecot and Mailman are listening in their own configurations.
>
> I suspect that Postfix will prefer IPv6 if available, so using
> "localhost" as the Mailman host may cause confusion.  Use the IP
> address instead.  If you specify the Mailman host as 127.0.0.1, I'm
> pretty sure that will work fine, as Mailman will listen on the
> specified port via IPv4, and the Postfix routing tables will be
> created with 127.0.0.1 and the specified port.
>
> I don't know if Mailman will do the right thing if you specify [::1];
> as far as I know we have never checked that Mailman is IPv6-clean,
> although the underlying Python libraries probably are.
>
> If you have a preference for IPv6, we can discuss that after getting
> everything working with the well-tested IPv4 configuration.
>
> --
> GNU Mailman consultant (installation, migration, customization)
> Sirius Open Source    https://www.siriusopensource.com/
> Software systems consulting in Europe, North America, and Japan
>
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