Jacques Dailey wrote: > >I set up Mailman as described in the README.SuSE documentation included >in the install package. Everything seemed to be going fine until I got >to step 4. ". . . call "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist mailman" to create >the master mailing list". Doing so resulted in the error "Bad owner >email address: mailman@(unused).
In off list communication, we determined that the SuSE Mailman package sets DEFAULT_URL_HOST and DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST to '(unused)' in Defaults.py. In this case, these bogus values had not been overridden in mm_cfg.py. Thus, when bin/newlist called the MailList.MailList.Create() method to create the list, it attempted to validate the list posting address via Mailman.Utils.ValidateEmail(). The posting address which Create() attempted to validate was 'mailman@(unused)' because of the value of DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST. Normally, if there is a problem with the list name which results in an invalid posting address, ValidateEmail() raises a Mailman.Errors.MMBadEmailError which is caught in Create() which raises a Mailman.Errors.BadListNameError which newlist reports as a bad listname. In this case, the parentheses in the domain caused ValidateEmail() to raise Mailman.Errors.MMHostileAddress instead which isn't caught in Create() and passes to newlist which interprets it as a problem with the owner address, thus the misleading error message from newlist. The solution was to define DEFAULT_URL_HOST and DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST with proper domain names in mm_cfg.py. -- 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
