[Mailman-Users] mailman thinks accounts are invalid

[Jon Carnes]

On Thursday 11 October 2001 10:14, Mark T. Valites wrote:
> I have recently set up solaris 5.8 machine with mailman 2.0 to do some
> testing for an older mailman system I use here.  Today I installed
> sendmail -8.12.1 as my MTA.  I can send mail fine to listname-owner and
> other aliases, but I am having problems sending mail to the list alias.
>  I have a test list set up with myself as the only member.  After I send
> mail to the list, I get errors in  ~mailman/logs/bounce in this format:
>
>  Oct 11 09:52:01 2001    (4409) LISTNAME: testuser at testdomain - 3 more
> allowed over 431450 secs,

This indicates that your mail has bounced and that Mailman is going to 
allow 3 more bounces before diabling sending to this address.

>
>
> Date....  (4409) All recipients refused:553, '5.1.3 <test-admin@>...
> Hostname required', 'test-admin@')
> Date....  (4409) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.084 seconds
>
> And I have to go in through the web admin interface and enable mail back
> to myself, since it gets checked to nomail.
> I get no messages by way of syslog for mail, but I still have a feeling
> the problem is with my MTA and not mailman.  553 is invalid mailbox
> name.  Again, I can hit the mailboxes directly, but not through mailman.
>  Syslog shows messages destined for the list being fed to the pipe
> specified in /etc/mail/aliases.  What causes the above symptom, and any
> ideas how can I fix it?

I think this is a symptom of not filing in the field for "host name this 
list prefers" on the General Admin page.  But then I never used MM v2.0

This does sound more like a Mailman integration problem.  Apparently 
Sendmail 8.12 is much less tolerant of any misconfiguration than 8.11.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

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