Jon, thanks for the ideas. However, I can't see how sendmail is failing. It works fine with pine (even has a hostname here) with /etc/hosts, /etc/mail/local-mail-hosts both reflecting the domain name. It really seems to have no normal problems, until used in conjunction with mailman.
Thanks again, adam Quoting Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hmm, You've got some real sendmail problems. You might want to > consult > that list or the FAQ's from http://www.sendmail.org > > You need to set your hostname properly. You can set it via the > hostname > command, but it's better if its in your servers configuration files. > Also, make sure that your hostname is in your /etc/hosts file and it's > ip is identified properly. > > You can edit /etc/sendmail.cf and set the hostname inside there (if > the > hostname you want it to use is not the default, but resolves to your > box > anyway). You also need to edit /etc/sendmail.cf or one of the > /etc/mail > files to alert Sendmail as to which domains are local (so it should > accept traffic for those domains as being local). > > As an aside, I don't like the way your RPM of Mailman installed and > expected a no-group when using the MTA. After you get your Sendmail > install working properly you should consider downloading the Mailman > from source and installing via: > ./configure --with-mail-gid=78 > make install > > Jon Carnes > > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 08:46, Adam wrote: > > I've been trying to get through these problems on my own for a while - > using the > > searchable mailling list (thanks for that guys). However, I've still > got problems. > > > > I'm using mandrake 9 with mailman installed from rpm, with sendmail > 8.12.7 > > installed from source. I seemed to have managed to get sendmail > working (with > > appropriate aliases) but it doesn't have NEWDB installed (I've > config'ed the > > aliases file myself). > > > > The first problem was my confirmation mails bouncing back to the user > with > > Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 65534, GOT gid 78. (Reconfigure to > take 78?) > > 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2 > > > > But I changed the gid of mailnull to 65534 and the bouncing stopped. > > > > > However, now I get on my mailman server those confirmation messages to > postmaster: > > > > The original message was received at Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:02:06 GMT > > from localhost > > with id h0RL26TX025349 > > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > (reason: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed > rcpthosts (#5.7.1)) > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > ... while talking to deepthought.34sp.com.: > > >>> DATA > > <<< 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts > (#5.7.1) > > 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown > > <<< 503 RCPT first (#5.5.1) > > > > Also, where do I configure the domain name for Mailman? At the moment > the > > default seems to be localhost.localdomain. > > > > Can anyone guide me through this? > > > > I'd appreciate some helpful advice here - thanks very much in advance. > > > > > adam > > > > -- > > GPG public key:- > > www.monkeez.co.uk/public_key.asc > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > 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 > > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe or change your options at > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com > > > -------------------------------- GPG public key:- www.monkeez.co.uk/public_key.asc ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
