[Mailman-Users] HOWTO run mailman on a nicknamed host

[Ruben Schattevoy]

Hi,

I have installed mailman 1.0rc2 on my linux box (SuSE 6.1) and it is
really
great! Now I want to setup some mailing lists for the institute I'm
working
at. Since mailman is installed in my private machine I would like to set
it
up in a way, that it uses a host nickname. Thus I can later move mailman
to
a server machine by just changing the nickname table of the local name
server.

This means: Rather than private.domain all mail/http addresses should
refer to listserv.domain. I have created a nickname in the local name
server and
have entered the e-mail address and the http address in the 'General
Options' page of mailman.

Now I'm faced with some boring sendmail problems which I cannot solve
for
my own. The first problem was, that my local sendmail did modify the
name
of the sender:

test-list-admin at listserv.domain  --> test-list-admin at domain

Since test-list-admin is not a NIS user and it is not known at the
domain
and therefor this does not work at all. After some hours of hacking the
sendmail.cf I found a way to prevent addresses of the form
'@listserv.domain' from being truncated. Now I get some other error
message dumped into the sendmail logfile (I have attached them to this
posting). Basically sendmail says, that there is a:

config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)

Can anybody help me in setting up mailman to run on a nick named host?
Isn't this problem a quite common one?

Thanks!
-- 
Dr. Ruben Schattevoy                 http://www.biochem.mpg.de/~schattev
Max-Planck-Institut of Biochemistry       mailto:schattev at biochem.mpg.de
Am Klopferspitz 18a                              Voice  +49(89)8578-2723
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Jun 24 17:48:26 rzpc sendmail[16537]: RAA16537: from=<schattev at biochem.mpg.de>, size=660, class=0, pri=30660, nrcpts=1, msgid=<3772534A.96BA651A at biochem.mpg.de>, proto=ESMTP, relay=schattev at localhost [127.0.0.1]
Jun 24 17:48:26 rzpc sendmail[16539]: RAA16537: SYSERR(root): listserv.biochem.mpg.de. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
Jun 24 17:48:26 rzpc sendmail[16540]: NOQUEUE: Null connection from root at rzpc.biochem.mpg.de [141.61.19.19]
Jun 24 17:48:26 rzpc sendmail[16539]: RAA16537: to=<test-biochem at listserv.biochem.mpg.de>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, relay=listserv.biochem.mpg.de. [141.61.19.19], stat=Local configuration error
Jun 24 17:48:27 rzpc sendmail[16539]: RAA16537: RAA16539: DSN: Local configuration error
Jun 24 17:48:27 rzpc sendmail[16539]: RAA16539: to=<schattev at biochem.mpg.de>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, relay=mail.biochem.mpg.de. [141.61.1.32], stat=Sent (RAA22621 Message accepted for delivery)
Jun 24 17:48:27 rzpc sendmail[16539]: RAA16539: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent
Jun 24 17:48:28 rzpc sendmail[16539]: RAA16537: RAB16539: postmaster notify: Local configuration error
Jun 24 17:48:28 rzpc sendmail[16539]: RAB16539: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent