[Mailman-Users] Newbie Question: Can`t send mails to my list

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Sun Sep 9 22:40:39 CEST 2007


Kai Behncke wrote:
>
>> These are only for the mailman list. You need another set of 10 like
>> 
>> complicate:          "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post complicate"
>> complicate-admin:    "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin complicate"
>> etc.
>> 
>> for the 'complicate' list and simarly for all other mailman lists. Then
>> you need to run the newaliases command to update the actual sendmail
>> database after you add the aliases to /etc/mail/aliases.
>> 
>> This may fix the entire problem,
>> 
>
>Thanks again. I checked that out with a new mailinglist and made the required entires but again I got after 2 or three seconds a "Mail-Delivery-Failure".


Did you run 'newaliases' after adding the aliases? If so, this is a
sendmail configuration issue of some kind, perhaps having to do with
virtual hosts.


>I wonder: Is there a way that these entries are made automatically 
>in the aliases or is it the common way to make them manually?


See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.049.htp>.

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