Typically this happens when you do not set the aliases in the /etc/aliases file (for sendmail compliant servers), or you forget to run "newaliases" after adding the mailing list aliases to /etc/aliases.
In short, you ran ~mailman/bin/newlist <listname> and mailman printed out a series of aliases that you needed to cut and paste into your /etc/aliases file, and you did not do it. Next time you might try running newlist -o Alternately, you are using a virtual address and have not linked the virtual address to the proper "real" address. You may also need to alert Mailman to the fact that you are using a virtual name for mailing lists (look in ~mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py, but only make changes to mm_cfg.py) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:42 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] General Response Error... user not found... > I am running into the error below when trying to send messages to lists > on my server... Basically, it returns that no user is found. Any ideas > on what is going wrong? Any help would be much appreciated. > > Thanks a million. > > Russ Jones > > ------------------ > The original message was received at Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:33:56 -0500 > (EST) > from webmail6.isis.unc.edu [152.2.1.153] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (reason: 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to mail.usstudents.org.: > >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <<< 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown > 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown > > > Part 2 > Reporting-MTA: dns; smtp.unc.edu > Arrival-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:33:56 -0500 (EST) > > Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Action: failed > Status: 5.1.1 > Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.usstudents.org > Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User > unknown > Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:35:29 -0500 (EST) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
