[Mailman-Users] General Response Error... user not found...

[Jon Carnes]

Typically this happens when you do not set the aliases in the /etc/aliases
file (for sendmail compliant servers), or you forget to run "newaliases"
after adding the mailing list aliases to /etc/aliases.

In short, you ran ~mailman/bin/newlist <listname> and mailman printed out a
series of aliases that you needed to cut and paste into your /etc/aliases
file, and you did not do it.

Next time you might try running newlist -o

Alternately, you are using a virtual address and have not linked the virtual
address to the proper "real" address.  You may also need to alert Mailman to
the fact that you are using a virtual name for mailing lists (look in
~mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py, but only make changes to mm_cfg.py)

----- Original Message -----
From: <rjones at email.unc.edu>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:42 PM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] General Response Error... user not found...


> I am running into the error below when trying to send messages to lists
> on my server... Basically, it returns that no user is found. Any ideas
> on what is going wrong? Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks a million.
>
> Russ Jones
>
> ------------------
> The original message was received at Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:33:56 -0500
> (EST)
> from webmail6.isis.unc.edu [152.2.1.153]
>
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <mailman-russ at usstudents.org>
>     (reason: 550 5.1.1 <mailman-russ at usstudents.org>... User unknown)
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to mail.usstudents.org.:
> >>> RCPT To:<mailman-russ at usstudents.org>
> <<< 550 5.1.1 <mailman-russ at usstudents.org>... User unknown
> 550 5.1.1 <mailman-russ at usstudents.org>... User unknown
>
>
> Part 2
> Reporting-MTA: dns; smtp.unc.edu
> Arrival-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:33:56 -0500 (EST)
>
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; mailman-russ at usstudents.org
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.1.1
> Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.usstudents.org
> Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <mailman-russ at usstudents.org>... User
> unknown
> Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:35:29 -0500 (EST)
>
>
>
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