The mail should be downloaded straight into the Mailman script which moves it straight to the qfiles. The email should never be stored in a local queue file once the alias for the list is invoked.
This indicates that you have a problem with the aliases (or your systems interpretation of the aliases). Please post an sample of your aliases file. Jon Carnes === On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 11:20, David Miner wrote: > Jon, > > I have created a list and received the notification of it. I added the > list to the aliases file and sent messages to it. > > maillog show the messages being passed to Mailman. The messages get as far > as the mail directory and do not get to the qfiles directories. > > At this point there is one file in the mail directory titled "mailman post > test" and it contains the several messages I have sent to the list. There > are no files in any of the qfiles directories. > > Additional information: There is also a "mailman bounces test" and a > "mailman post fp" file in the mail directory. There is also a "mailman" > file there. > > According to your comment, the mailman post (and bounces) app is not > working. What do I do to fix it? > > Thanks, > > David > > At 08:09 PM 3/15/2004 -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > > >On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 10:12, David Miner wrote: > > > I am running version 2.1.4 of Mailman. > > > It was installed from the FreeBSD port. > > > I am running FreeBSD 4.9 > > > My MTA is sendmail. > > > > > > I have installed and configured Mailman 2.1.4. I have created a list and > > > entered the information in /etc/aliases and run newaliases. > > > > > > My /var/log/maillog show incoming mail being passed to Mailman. > > > > > > The messages are passed through the system until they reach the > > > /usr/local/mailman/mail directory, then they stop. > > > > > > bin/check_perms says no problems. > > > > > > Qrunners and mailmanactl are running and show up in ps -aux. > > > > > > I have followed all of the steps in FAQ 3.14 Troubleshooting: No mail > > going > > > out to lists members. > > > > > > A search of the mailman archives (because of the way I thin about the > > > problem) either resulted in nothing or too much to search through. > > > > > > I scanned the archives month by month back to December 2003 and found > > nothing. > > > > > > Suggestions? > > > > > > TIA, > > > > > > David > > > >David, have you created any lists successfully (and gotten notification > >of their creations)? Did you create the "mailman" list? > > > >So... you've successfully created the mailman list and a test list. You > >send to the test list and the MTA (Sendmail) runs the Mailman app > >associated with that alias - so the message is now waiting in one of > >your ~mailman/qfiles/.. directory's. > > cd ~mailman/qfiles/ > > ls * > > > >Can you tell us if there are files there, and which directories they are > >in? > > > >If there are no files in the qfiles directory, then either they are > >getting processed by the qrunners (so there should be MTA records of the > >outgoing mail) or they are not getting to the qfiles directory - so the > >mailman post app is not working for the list. > > > >Jon Carnes > > > > > > > >--- > >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > >Version: 6.0.619 / Virus Database: 398 - Release Date: 3/10/2004 > > David R. Miner Voice: (850) 644-8107 > Assistant In Information Practice Fax: (850) 644-6253 > Faculty Practitioner in Network Services E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > School of Information Studies > The Florida State University > Tallahassee, FL 32306-2100 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.619 / Virus Database: 398 - Release Date: 3/10/2004 ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
