[Mailman-Users] "unknown mailer error 1"

[Silk]

> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > sh: /home/mailman/mail/wrapper.mailcmd.test: not found
> 
> Those dots there are a clue.  I suspect something has interpreted
> that command as an alias, so I suspect your aliases file says
> something like:
> 
> test-request: |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test
> 
> Try enclosing the whole thing in quotes, as bin/newlist says to do:
> 
> test-request: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test"

Hi: I'm about to include the text of a mail I sent yesterday, which
is having similar behaviour. The MTA in question for me is Exim:

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> So, you found out how to create the lists? Let me know....

By command-line using newlist:

I am, however, having a problem with it: it goes like this.

The txt file attached is a log extract from /var/log/exim/mainlog
showing the logged bits for two posts. One is the 'confirm' response
required to subscribe to a list and the other is an attempt to
post to that list. I've put, as you can tell from these logs, the
correct lines generated by 'newlist' into /etc/aliases, however, this is
what I get.

What have I mis-configured? It looks like an exim misconfiguration,
but mailman hasn't as yet told me to do anything more than what I've
done to make it work...
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And another file read in, which is the attached error message
generated by exim/mainlog:

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2000-10-02 15:45:48 13g6qi-0002hj-00 <= chris at foo.org U=chris P=local S=675 id=20001002154548.A8924 at foo.org
2000-10-02 15:45:48 13g6qi-0002hj-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd house
2000-10-02 15:46:58 13g6rq-0002lu-00 <= chris at foo.org U=chris P=local S=565 id=20001002154658.B8924 at foo.org
2000-10-02 15:46:58 13g6rq-0002lu-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post house
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My etc/aliases looks like this:

## test mailing list
## created: 02-Oct-2000 chris
test:                    "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post test"
test-admin:              "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test"
test-request:            "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test"
test-owner:              test-admin

So: what have *I* done wrong? I can't seem to work it out.

~cHris

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