Thanks Adam and Mark for your responses. I'm always amazed at the
generosity of the open source community and I do appreciate it.
After about 4 hours fiddling I'd managed to find a fix. I think the main
thing I was missing was that you have to run genaliases in order to
update the lookup file.
I had read http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html but not found it
particularly enlightening, esp. the exim section. I had read a lot more,
too. Just search this list for "virutal domain" and you'll see how many
others have problems too, and I read through lots of those!
In the end I found /usr/share/doc/mailman/README.Exim4.Debian.gz which
was most helpful.
For the benefit of anyone reading this, I have learnt:
1. in mm_config, it says postfix but it means exim too. Unfortunate
lexical obfuscation ;-)
2. virtual domains look like quite a hassle with postfix, but with exim
they're easy as long as your lists all have unique names, regardless of
their domain (or you have to run 2 installs of mm)
3. running genaliases is needed to update existing lists.
4. beyond the instructions in README.Exim4.Debian I added a line
add_virtualhost('my.virt.host.com','my.virt.host.com')
for each virtualhost. I'm not sure this is needed once it's listed
in POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS
but I'm not going to try to break it now I've finally got it working!
5. Exim +debconf rocks: debconf effortlessly ensured I avoided the
pitfalls that seem so common from reports elsewhere on MTA config, and
exim -d -bt s...@email.address.com bends over backwards to tell you what
it's doing.
Happy at last.
Good luck to everyone else!
Rich
On 06/08/11 23:57, Rich Lott wrote:
Hi
I have exim4 and mailman running successfully on my server. I have a
working list that runs at somelistn...@artfulrobot.com and a working
web admin iface. All good.
But now I want to set up a new list under a subdomain for another
client. This list name does not clash with my other list, and it is
does not clash with a username on the server.
I set it up with this command
$ newlist -e maybe.artfulrobot.com -u artfulrobot.com community
I used the web iface to mass subscribe my own email address, and I got
a "welcome" message. But when I try to send to the list, it bounces back.
Nb. I can email someotheru...@maybe.artfulrobot.com and receive it at
someotheruser's normal user account.
I looked at the output from this command:
$ exim4 -d -bt commun...@maybe.artfulrobot.com
to see why it was failing. Output below.
Basically, it seems that mm has not registered
commun...@maybe.artfulrobot.com in data/virtual-mailman.
I've read lots of postings, docs etc. but gotten nowhere. I've tried
fiddling with /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py, adding things like:
MTA=None (and MTA='None')
add_virtualhost('maybe.artfulrobot.com','maybe.artfulrobot.com' )
POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [ 'artfulrobot.com',
'maybe.artfulrobot.com']
Each change I've restarted MM. Tried and got the unrouteable error again.
Can anyone help?! thanks...
Rich
--------> mailman_router router <--------
local_part=community domain=maybe.artfulrobot.com
checking domains
cached yes match for +local_domains
cached lookup data = NULL
maybe.artfulrobot.com in "+local_domains"? yes (matched
"+local_domains" - cached)
checking require_files
file check: /var/lib/mailman/lists/$local_part/config.pck
expanded file: /var/lib/mailman/lists/community/config.pck
stat() yielded 0
checking "condition"
search_open: lsearch "/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman"
search_find: file="/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman"
key="commun...@maybe.artfulrobot.com" partial=-1 affix=NULL starflags=0
LRU list:
:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
:/etc/aliases
End
internal_search_find: file="/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman"
type=lsearch key="commun...@maybe.artfulrobot.com"
file lookup required for commun...@maybe.artfulrobot.com
in /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
lookup failed
mailman_router router skipped: condition failure
no more routers
search_tidyup called
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Exim pid=2959 terminating with rc=2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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