[Mailman-Users] distributing of the mail is not ok

[Stefan Förster]

Am 09.06.2008 um 10:16 schrieb sfantar at snurf.info:

> I installed mailman. I created a mailing list to test if mailman works
> fine or not. Well, mailman seems alsmot to work but there is just a
> problem.
>
> Let's assume, I have a mailing list : "test". And the mail used for  
> this
> mailing list is "test at lists.mydomain.tld", the members have to send
> their mails at test at lists.mydomain.tld, sure, this email exists, but  
> if
> a member sends a mail to this address, the mail sticks with the folder
> of the email (/var/spool/vmail/lists.mydomain.tld/test/new/), and so  
> the
> email is not distributed to the list.
>
> I didn't find a solution, I think this  is a problem with the
> configuration... Any ideas?


Obviously, you did not configure your MTA (Sendmail, Exim, Postfix) to  
forward those mails to Mailman. Instead, the mail is delivered to the  
correspondent maildir in /var/spool. Mailman integration for various  
MTAs is described here:

http://www.list.org/mailman-install/mail-server.html


Cheers
Stefan
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