It works just fine if I log in as root and use newlist, but if I try
to create a new list via the web admin interface, two things happen.
First, I get an error, whose text I do not have in front of me (I
know, I know, first rule of error reporting, report the exact error,
but you probably won't
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Steve Matzura sm...@noisynotes.com wrote:
user unknown in virtual mailbox table. My question is, why doesn't
the web interface create new list feature update the aliases file?
What aliases file? Exim, for example, doesn't need one at all. There
are many MTAs,
Steve Matzura wrote:
It works just fine if I log in as root and use newlist, but if I try
to create a new list via the web admin interface, two things happen.
First, I get an error, whose text I do not have in front of me (I
know, I know, first rule of error reporting, report the exact error,
but
Mark Sapiro wrote:
Steve Matzura wrote:
and
second, the aliases file is not updated, so if a subscriber tries to
send a message to the list, they receive an auto-reply telling them
user unknown in virtual mailbox table. My question is, why doesn't
the web interface create new list feature update
The MTA is postfix. The file in question is
/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases which, according to what I've read, is
created from aliases.db. The interesting thing is, virtual-mailman
*is* updated correctly from virtual-mailman.db while aliases is not.
Mailman was installed long before I got here,
Steve Matzura wrote:
The MTA is postfix. The file in question is
/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases which, according to what I've read, is
created from aliases.db.
The other way around.
The interesting thing is, virtual-mailman
*is* updated correctly from virtual-mailman.db while aliases is not.
It would *never* be in my best interest not to give you all the info.
The problem is, I don't know exactly what info you need or want, and
what would be superfluous. Let's see if I can provide more below.
Anything I've omitted, just ask and it shall be yours for the knowing.
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:46:48 -0700, you wrote:
You need to 'chmod 660 /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman.db' It
must be writable by the 'list group or it can't be updated by the web
server running the create CGI.
I did that and am still receiving the unknown virtual host error when
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Steve Matzura wrote:
It would *never* be in my best interest not to give you all the info.
The problem is, I don't know exactly what info you need or want, and
what would be superfluous. Let's see if I can provide more below.
Anything I've omitted, just ask and it shall be
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:24:07 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Steve Matzura wrote:
It would *never* be in my best interest not to give you all the info.
The problem is, I don't know exactly what info you need or want, and
what would be superfluous. Let's see if I can provide more
Steve Matzura wrote:
That would be www.theglobalvoice.info with the additional mailman
suffix string, of course. I tried putting add_virtualhost in
mm_cfg.py, but all that did was generate an error saying I'd found a
bug! Obviously that was the wrong thing to do, so I removed it, and
now we're
On Mar 28, 2012, at 4:40 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:24:07 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
How about the error message you get when you try to create a list via the
web interface. The one that you assumed we would somehow all know without
you telling us (having never
I've obviously bunged this up badly. Now here it is, all correct and
properly assigned to each half of the problem:
When creating the list ad...@theglobalvoice.info, unknown virtual
host is the error, but some way, somehow, the list gets partially
created.
If I send a message to that partially
Steve Matzura wrote:
When creating the list ad...@theglobalvoice.info, unknown virtual
host is the error, but some way, somehow, the list gets partially
created.
How do you know this? Is the list visible in the web UI? In
bin/list_lists?
If I send a message to that partially created list,
Steve Matzura wrote:
I wrote:
How do you know this? Is the list visible in the web UI? In
bin/list_lists?
Neither.
Then the list didn't exist. It was not created, partially or otherwise.
Do you have
add_virtualhost('www.theglobalvoice.info', 'theglobalvoice.info')
or perhaps the
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:37:42 -0700, you wrote:
Did I forget to check or report on anything?
Well, you never answered the questions I asked at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2012-March/073113.html
so we don't know what was wrong there, but presumably, you don't care
as you
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