I found a log called /var/logs/mailman/smtp-failures that listed a series of User Unknown errors for the list I tried to create this morning. My mailman documentation includes a file called INSTALL.REDHAT which has a troubleshooting section. The user unknown problem is listed there. It says that the reason this error shows up is because the mailing list aliases have not been added to /etc/alases. I ran /var/mailman/bin/rmlist on all my lists (including mailman) while leaving their definitions in /etc/aliases. I then ran newlist for a list called mailman and went back to the smtp-failures log. It showed the error:
Jun 26 22:03:03 2004 (4416) SMTP session failure: 553, 5.3.0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User Unknown, msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The time stamp was consistent with the time I created the list. What can I do about this? The mailman definitions were still in /etc/aliases. On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:08, Michael Sullivan wrote: > mailman hasn't been working right since Monday morning. I thought it > might be a sendmail problem because it stopped working after I started > trying to alter sendmail.mc, but I just found a backup of /etc/mail from > Sunday night when mailman was working and restored it, it mailman still > doesn't work. I issue the command /var/mailman/bin/newlist to create a > new mailing list and then go through the prompts. It gives me the > additions to /etc/aliases file and then to run newaliases. It then says > that it's notifying the list owner (which I specify as > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I never get the email though. Should the > creation of the newlist show up in the /var/mailman/logs directory, > because /var/mailman/logs remains empty. Are there any other log > locations I should check? Please help! ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
