Hello, Mark, Thanks so much for your kind help.
Meta answer: quite to my surprise, the problem was that mailman wasn't running. Apparently the reason was that, when the system was rebooted, mailman failed to start because there was no mailman@ list. Once I created it, the problem was solved. (is this list really needed?) I'm curious how I was able to start mailman in the first place, though. More comments in-line... On 02/17/2016 03:17 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 02/16/2016 10:14 PM, Fernando Gont wrote: > >> Essentially, any emails that I send to the mail-robot aliases (e.g. >> [email protected]) are kind of blackholed: I don't get a >> response from mailman, but I also don't get any sort of "user unknown >> message" either. >> >> Similarly, if I try to post to the list, the messages vanish (they are >> not forwarded to the subscribers but you don't get a "reject", either). > ... >> This is my Postfix config (postconf -n): >> >> ---- cut here ---- > > OK > > >> This is mm_cfg.py: >> >> ----cut here ---- > > OK > > >> If I look at /var/log/mail.info, I can see that my messages (the one I >> set to the robot [email protected], and the one >> where I tried to post to the list at [email protected]) >> have been handled to mailman, aparently: >> >> ---- cut here ---- >> # -*- python -*- >> >> # Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > > This is another copy of mm_cfg.py, not a copy of relevant > /var/log/mail.info (or /var/log/mail.log) entries. Oops, my bad, sorry. >> ----cut here ---- > > Do the actual entries contain things like > > status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request > ipv6hackers) > > and > > status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post > ipv6hackers) > > Or do they perhaps say > > status=sent (delivered via mailman service) The later. I thought that the emails had been lost, but when I was finally able to start mailman, it turned out they wasn't. -- I assume postfix coudln't really handle the mails to mailman, and hence queued them? >> >> But the logs in var/log/mailman remain unaffected. > > > including /var/log/mailman/error? Nothing there -- but it kind of makes sense, since mailman wasn't really running in the first place? Thanks! Cheers, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: [email protected] || [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
