[Mailman-Users] New Mailman Installation with Postfix: Black Hole

[Larry Hansford]

At 09:48 PM 4/10/2003, Roy S. Rapoport wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Larry Hansford wrote:
> > Is Mailman running?  It appears from the above log that it is not running,
> > and the mail you've sent to the list is waiting to be handled.
>
>Hey, good call -- it wasn't running.
>
> > When you do a ps auxww|grep mailman, do you get a list of about 8 processes
> > running?
>
>It wasn't running, but it is now.  Mail gets to the list (it's in the
>archives), but mailman's not generating any outgoing email, whether to users
>or to list owners for their new lists.

Did you add a line such as:

MTA = 'Postfix'

to the mm_cfg.py file?  (Note: Restart Mailman if you change this file.)

Have you checked the ~/mailman/data/aliases file to ensure that all the 
list aliases are there.

By the way, did you create a "mailman" list, which is needed by the system?

Larry


>-roy