[Mailman-Users] Newbie: Trying to set up mailman

[Richard Bates]

I had all 8 qrunners running.

I decided to re-install the whole box.
This time it worked.
	I used all the FreeBSD Ports installs.
	But I had to go back to the
	mailman install and reconfigure it
	to take messages as "mailman"
	it was expecting "nobody"

	Once I did that it seems to be working.

Thanks for your help.
Rich Bates

On Nov 7, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Richard Bates wrote:
>>
>> I searched the faq:
>> 	and tried to do all the items in faq
>> 	3.14. Troubleshooting: No mail going out to lists members
>
>
> Did you check that mailmanctl and all 8 qrunners are running. Your
> symptom is that at least one of IncomingRunner and OutgoingRunner is
> not running,
>
>
>> I did notice that the mailuser "nobody" is getting mail every
>> 5 min I don't know what this message means...
>> === startmessage
>> From operator at mail2.telehouse.com  Tue Nov  7 12:55:00 2006
>> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on
>> mail2.telehouse.com
>> X-Spam-Level:
>> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.5 tests=NO_RELAYS  
>> autolearn=no
>>         version=3.1.7
>> X-Original-To: operator
>> Delivered-To: operator at mail2.telehouse.com
>> From: operator at mail2.telehouse.com (Cron Daemon)
>> To: operator at mail2.telehouse.com
>> Subject: Cron <operator at mail2> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
>> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
>> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
>> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
>> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=operator>
>> X-Cron-Env: <USER=operator>
>> Date: Tue,  7 Nov 2006 12:55:00 -0500 (EST)
>> X-Procmail-Status1: Global
>> X-Virus-Status: No
>> X-Virus-Checker-Version: clamassassin 1.2.3 with clamscan / ClamAV
>> 0.88.5/2035/Sun Oct 15 16:42:30 2006
>>
>> YES: not found
>> ===== end message
>
>
> If this is related to Mailman, it is because something is messed up in
> mailman's crontab. The crontab sgould be running several daily jobs at
> various times plus cron/gate_news every 5 minutes. Thes should run as
> the mailman user. It looks like crond is trying to run the command
> 'YES' as 'operator'.
>> Nov  7 12:40:20 mail2 postfix/local[70183]: 814EA9581F:
>> to=<mylist at mail2.mysite.com>, relay=local, delay=0.21,
>> delays=0.02/0.01/0/0.17, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to
>> command: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mylist)
>
>
> So the mail is being delivered properly to the wrapper.
>
>
>> Here is the /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases file
>
>
> So the aliases are OK
>
>
>> here is teh /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py
>> ===== Start mm_cfg.py
>> # -*- python -*-
>>
>> # Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002 by the Free Software
>> Foundation, Inc.
>> #
>> # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>>
>> ###############################################
>> # Here's where we get the distributed defaults.
>>
>> from Defaults import *
>>
>> ##################################################
>> # Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line.
>> IMAGE_Logos = '/images/'
>> MTA = 'Postfix'
>> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mail2.mysite.com'
>> DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mail2.mysite.com'
>> ===== End mm_cfg.py
>
>
> If the above settings for DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST and DEFAULT_URL_HOST are
> different from what is in Defaults.py, you shold also have after the
> two settings
>
> VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear()
> add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
>
> although this is not your immediate problem.
>
>
> Are the messaages in one of Mailman's queues? Do
>
> ls -laR qfiles/
>
> Are there any files of form tttt.tttt+xxxxxx.pck in any of the
> subdirectories of qfiles/?. If so, in which subdirectory?
>
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>