[Mailman-Users] Problems sending mail to mailing list - UPDATE

[Peter Hutnick]

Maybe the rub is that it should be "su - mailman" instead of "su 
mailman"  I think using the - (make it a login shell) option will get 
your environment right for setting up the crontab.

-Peter

>
> Matt Jenkins wrote:
>>
>> @#$@#!  The INSTALL file says to do a su to mailman.  Looking in
>> the crontab manual it says that's not a good idea.  I see why
>> now.
>
> Worked fine for me.
>
>> The documentation
>> for Mailman should be changed to read "crontab -u mailman
>> crontab.in" and remove the su line.  Thanks a ton Roger!
>
> Not that simple.  My crontab utility doesn't have a '-u' switch.
>
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Roger B.A. Klorese <rogerk at QueerNet.ORG>
>> To: Matt Jenkins <linux at wildernesscomputing.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 9:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems sending mail to mailing
>> list - UPDATE
>>
>> > That says it's getting delivered properly to your spool.  Are
>> > you running the mailman queue?
>> >
>> > On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Matt Jenkins wrote:
>> >
>> > > Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 21:40:07 -0500
>> > > From: Matt Jenkins <linux at wildernesscomputing.com>
>> > > To: mailman-users at python.org
>> > > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Problems sending mail to mailing
>> > > list - UPDATE
>> > >
>> > > Redirected my mail.debug to a seperate file so I could find
>> > > it in my neverending mail logs.  Here is the line which gets
>> > > generated when I
>> send
>> > > mail to a list:
>> > >
>> > > Feb  3 21:23:53 stunix sendmail[14493]: VAA14492:
>> > > to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post all_campus",
>> > > delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Sent
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Any clues?  Thanks.
>> > >
>> > > Matt
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > ------------------------------------------------------
>> > > Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
>> > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
>> > >
>> >
>> > --
>> > ROGER B.A. KLORESE
>> rogerk at QueerNet.ORG
>> > PO Box 14309                                 San Francisco, CA
>> > 94114 "There is only one real blasphemy -- the refusal of
>> > joy!"       -- Paul
>> Rudnick
>> >
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users


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