[Mailman-Users] qrunner refuses to pass mail to users

[Mark Sapiro]

falko at tahoe.reservoir.com wrote:

>On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 12:02:52AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:

>> 
>> And what is in the smtp-failure log?
>> 
>
>This stuff: 
>
>Aug 19 13:09:18 2007 (7258) delivery to addr1 at reservoir.com failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused')
>Aug 19 13:09:18 2007 (7258) delivery to addr2 at reservoir.com failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused')
>Aug 19 13:09:18 2007 (7258) delivery to addr... at reservoir.com failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused')
>
>So the question I guess is, why is postfix refusing the connnection? How does mailman connect to 
>postfix?


See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.073.htp>.

Mailman attempts to connect to SMTPPORT on SMTPHOST (defaults are port
25 on 'localhost') to deliver mail.


>I am using this in mm_cfg.py:
>
># Maildir
>USE_MAILDIR = Yes
>QRUNNERS.append(('MaildirRunner', 1))
>
>DEFAULT_DIGESTABLE = No
>
># Uses genaliases as covered by mailman docs.
>MTA = 'Postfix'
>
>
>In /etc/postfix/main.cf I have this:
>
>alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
>
>Inside /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases:
>
># STANZA START: list
># CREATED: Sun Aug 19 01:13:18 2007
>list:             /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/
>list-admin:       /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/
>list-bounces:     /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/
>list-confirm:     /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/
>list-join:        /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/
>list-leave:       /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/
>list-owner:       /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/
>list-request:     /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/
>list-subscribe:   /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/
>list-unsubscribe: /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/
># STANZA END: list


All of the above is relevant only for incoming mail to Mailman.  None
of it is relevant to the smtp failures.

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