> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 11:00 PM > To: Tom Barton; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Email to list rejected > > Tom Barton wrote: > > >For some reason email to my list is being rejected. I've > set up a list with > >my email address as the only member. When I send email to > the list I get: > > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > (reason: 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address > rejected: User > >unknown in local recipient table) > > > This looks like an alias problem.
That was it. There were two places in /etc/postfix/main.cf where alias_maps was set. The final one did not include the mailman aliases file. I checked that darned alias_maps variable 50 times, but didn't check to see if it was set elsewhere in the file. Sigh. Thanks, Mark! Should I add this to the FAQ? > >I'm using: > > > >foo:trb $ rpm -aq|grep mailman > >mailman-2.1.4-83.4 > >foo:trb $ rpm -aq|grep postfix > >postfix-2.1.1-1.4 > >foo:trb $ uname -a > >Linux foo 2.6.5-7.104-default #1 Wed Jul 28 16:42:13 UTC > 2004 i686 i686 i386 > >GNU/Linux > > > >Mailman and postfix were installed via rpm. > > > >There are no entries in /etc/postfix/access. Should there be? > > > >Where/how is access to sending email to a list managed? How > particular is > >it in regard to address matching? In other words, does > every part of an > >address have to match the address in the list, or does it > just look at the > >user id? > > > It is done through aliases that match the "user id" and pipe the > message to mailman. > > > >The machine is accepting email from the same address when it > is sent to a > >user on the machine, but it is rejected when sent to a Mailman list. > > > >I thought this would be in the FAQ, but I can't find it. If > you can help me > >figure this out, I'll add it. > > > >Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > > Did you look at FAQ articles 1.7 and 3.14? They both mention aliases. > > Have you read the INSTALL and README.POSTFIX documents that are in the > standard Mailman distribution? Are these or equivalents in your > mailman rpm? If you don't have them, you can find them at > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mailman/mailman/ > > -- > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
