[Mailman-Users] question..

[George Galang]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Greg Ward wrote:

> On 28 November 2001, George Galang said:
> > I am running qmail and mailman 2.0.7.  I can get mailman to send out 
> > messages to the local users, but I can't get it to send out to users who 
> > are not hosted on the machine it is running.  Any advice?
> 
> Yes: define "can't", ie. explain exactly what is happening and what is
> going wrong.  Supply extracts from qmails logs.  Use a packet-tracer (I
> quite like ethereal -- see www.ethereal.com) to watch the traffic
> between Mailman and qmail, and then see if qmail does anything after
> that.
> 
> Might also be useful to know which OS you're using, which version of
> Python, which version of qmail, and which (if any) qmail patches you're
> running.  (ISTR that qmail is frozen at version 1.03, but lots and lots
> of people have provided add-on patches.  Strange way to address users'
> feature wishes, but never mind.)

No problem.

Mandrake 8.2.
Python 2.0
Qmail 1.03, no patches


Here is the syslog of something being sent to the list....

Nov 28 12:42:44 camarilla qmail: 1006969364.349914 info msg 583: bytes 
443 from <ggalang at camarilla.superb.net> qp 16964 uid 503
Nov 28 12:42:44 camarilla qmail: 1006969364.413390 starting delivery 
183: msg 583 to local test at camarilla.superb.net
Nov 28 12:42:44 camarilla qmail: 1006969364.413536 status: local 1/10 
remote 0/20
Nov 28 12:42:44 camarilla qmail: 1006969364.898137 delivery 183: 
success: did_0+0+1/
Nov 28 12:42:44 camarilla qmail: 1006969364.899110 status: local 0/10 
remote 0/20
Nov 28 12:42:44 camarilla qmail: 1006969364.899653 end msg 583



And here is what happens when it tries to send out...

Nov 28 12:43:02 camarilla qmail: 1006969382.959482 new msg 583
Nov 28 12:43:02 camarilla qmail: 1006969382.960072 info msg 583: bytes 
1569 from <test-admin at camarilla.superb.net> qp 16977 uid 401
Nov 28 12:43:03 camarilla qmail: 1006969383.033598 starting delivery 
184: msg 583 to local ggalang at camarilla.superb.net
Nov 28 12:43:03 camarilla qmail: 1006969383.033800 status: local 1/10 
remote 0/20
Nov 28 12:43:03 camarilla qmail: 1006969383.083192 delivery 184: 
success: did_1+0+0/
Nov 28 12:43:03 camarilla qmail: 1006969383.084203 status: local 0/10 
remote 0/20
Nov 28 12:43:03 camarilla qmail: 1006969383.084765 end msg 583



And here is the mailman log....

Nov 28 12:43:02 2001 (16972) Test: george_galang at bellsouth.net - 0 more 
allowed over 423244 secs



Note: george_galang at bellsouth.net is subscribed to the list.

> Are you new at Internet email administration in general, too?  If so,
> you're in for a lot of hard work.  Good luck.

I'll admit I've never used qmail and mailman before, but I have set up 
and adminstrated a majordomo / sendmail combo.

-- 
George Galang - 9803004