[Mailman-Users] Not talking to Qmail?

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Thu Oct 24 23:03:21 CEST 2002


Hmmmm, Sounds more like a routing problem then. Still a routing problem
should show some errors in your MTA's log file.

Check out your MTA routing table and make sure that localhost
(127.0.0.1) is allowed to relay.

Good Luck!

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 16:39, Christopher Calzonetti wrote:
> Follow up.  I was slightly incorrect in what I said earlier:
> 
> E-mails sent TO the list show up in the list archives.  E-mails 
> originating FROM Mailman are what appear to be failing.
> 
> On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 04:28 p, Christopher Calzonetti wrote:
> 
> > Not exactly.  Mail sent to the mailman lists just seems to disappear 
> > into a void.  As does any mail generated by Mailman, like when you 
> > subscribe to the list through the web interface.  Mailman records that 
> > it tried to send a message to the user in the smtp and bounce logs, 
> > but /var/log/maillog shows no record of it.
> >
> > Qmail seems to be working fine otherwise.  The netstat command you 
> > suggested gives an output exactly like you indicated it would.  Mail 
> > messages get sent out from that box just fine, and messages in to not 
> > list addresses get delivered just fine.
> >
> > On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 04:09 p, Jon Carnes wrote:
> >
> >> So all the mail sent to mailman lists is bouncing? but qmail doesn't
> >> record any attempt by mailman to submit the messages?
> >>
> >> Is Qmail listening on the localhost (127.0.0.1) interface?
> >>
> >>   netstat -na |grep ":25 "
> >>
> >> If you see a line like the one below, then that is okay:
> >>    tcp     0     0 0.0.0.0:25      0.0.0.0:*       LISTEN
> >>
> >> If not, then Qmail may not be accepting mail sent to the local host
> >> interface.  This is the default used by Mailman.  To change this, you
> >> would have to edit ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py and use the Defaults.py
> >> file as an example of what to put in there.
> >>
> >> Good Luck.
> >
> >
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