[Mailman-Users] mail to my list -> mta result: user unknown

Hilton J Ralphs mailman-users at think.co.za
Wed May 5 16:03:31 CEST 2004


You need to do all this in the aliases table.
-- 
Regards
Hilton


Quoting walter.mauritz at wu-wien.ac.at:

> On sending a eMail to my mailing-list I get the following error.
> 
> (from "tail -F -n 30 /var/log/maillog")
> May  5 15:44:03 smesrv sendmail[24051]: i45Di3D5024051: <mylist at smesrv.sme-
> union.org>... User unknown
> May  5 15:44:03 smesrv sendmail[24051]: i45Di3D5024051:
> from=<waltermauritz at gmx.at>, 
> size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=pop.gmx.net
> [213.165.64.20]
> 
> -> mylist at smesrv.sme-union.org --- user unknown
> 
> I have set up
> - mailman 
> - with sendmail
> - on redhat
> 
> I have sticked to the manual of the distribution
> 1) INSTALL
> 2) README
> 3) README.SENDMAIL
> 
> I use a "mailertable"
> smesrv.sme-union.org    mailman:smesrv.sme-union.org
> 
> ... which should put all mails not known (like "mylist" isnt a system user)
> to the Mail Delivery 
> Agent, defined in sendmail.mc:
> 
> #snip from /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
> Mmailman, P=/etc/mail/mm-handler, F=rDFMhlqSu, U=mailman:mailman,
>   S=EnvFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
>   A=mm-handler $h $u
> #end
> 
> - mailertable has been done in db
> - sendmail.mc done to .fc
> - /etc/mail/mm-handler is executable to all
> 
> But for some reason this does NOT WORK. --- user unknown
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> btw here my "mm_cfg.py"
> #########CODE 
> from Defaults import *
> 
> IMAGE_LOGOS = '/icons/'
> 
> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'smesrv.sme-union.org'
> DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'smesrv.sme-union.org'
> 
> add_virtualhost('smesrv.sme-union.org','smesrv.sme-union.org')
> ##########
> 
> Questions to you:
> 1) Do you know what I have done wrong?
> 2) Or can you tell me how to set up the aliases manually? (Where does
> "mylist at smesrv.sme-
> union.org" has to point in virtuser..






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