John Fleming wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <mailman-users@python.org> >Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 4:19 PM >Subject: [Mailman-Users] User unknown new error > > >> This list used to work, and now it has a problem that I have found some >> threads about, but I still can't fix it - Not to mention, I don't know why >> it used to work and now it doesn't! Here's the msg received back after >> trying to post to the list: >> >> The original message was received at Sat, 23 Jul 2005 17:09:59 -0400 >> from vsat-148-64-5-87.c050.t7.mrt.starband.net [148.64.5.87] >> >> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> (reason: 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address >> rejected: User unknown in local recipient table) >> >> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >> ... while talking to wa9als.com.: >>>>> DATA >> <<< 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address rejected: User >> unknown in local recipient table >> 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown >> <<< 554 Error: no valid recipients >> >> Is this an alias issue, and if so, how to fix? Or permissions? And >> why/how >> could it change without my input??? Many thanks! - John > >More info - List was quiet yeterday, and I took the newbie approach and >simply recreated the list and now that list is OK. BUT, now another list, >that was working yesterday, has developed the same problem, yet others are >still fine! How could this problem crop up in an unpredictable way? And >how to fix?
This is almost certainly an MTA alias problem. Since you don't mention specifically updating aliases, I'm guessing your MTA is Postfix and that somehow your $prefix/data/aliases has gotten out of synch with your lists or something like that. See http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node13.html -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
