Jon, thanks again for your quick response. This did in fact fix the problem.
Time to fix the problem I set this machine up to test for... Jon Carnes wrote: >On Thursday 11 October 2001 10:14, Mark T. Valites wrote: > >>I have recently set up solaris 5.8 machine with mailman 2.0 to do some >>testing for an older mailman system I use here. Today I installed >>sendmail -8.12.1 as my MTA. I can send mail fine to listname-owner and >>other aliases, but I am having problems sending mail to the list alias. >> I have a test list set up with myself as the only member. After I send >>mail to the list, I get errors in ~mailman/logs/bounce in this format: >> >> Oct 11 09:52:01 2001 (4409) LISTNAME: testuser@testdomain - 3 more >>allowed over 431450 secs, >> > >This indicates that your mail has bounced and that Mailman is going to >allow 3 more bounces before diabling sending to this address. > >> >>Date.... (4409) All recipients refused:553, '5.1.3 <test-admin@>... >>Hostname required', 'test-admin@') >>Date.... (4409) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.084 seconds >> >>And I have to go in through the web admin interface and enable mail back >>to myself, since it gets checked to nomail. >>I get no messages by way of syslog for mail, but I still have a feeling >>the problem is with my MTA and not mailman. 553 is invalid mailbox >>name. Again, I can hit the mailboxes directly, but not through mailman. >> Syslog shows messages destined for the list being fed to the pipe >>specified in /etc/mail/aliases. What causes the above symptom, and any >>ideas how can I fix it? >> > >I think this is a symptom of not filing in the field for "host name this >list prefers" on the General Admin page. But then I never used MM v2.0 > >This does sound more like a Mailman integration problem. Apparently >Sendmail 8.12 is much less tolerant of any misconfiguration than 8.11. > >Good Luck - Jon Carnes > >>------------------------------------------------------ >>Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users >> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
