[Mailman-Users] Subscription messages don't send out

[Mark Sapiro]

Hung Phan wrote:
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>We found that our Mailman doesn't send out the subscription confirmation messages for some lists but not all lists. The subscribe and smtp logs have the correspondence entries reflect the subscription and the confirmation message send out. In the exim log, we found this:
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>2010-12-02 12:26:12 1POFjI-0000ff-J2 <= listserv_test-bounces at mailman.domain H=localhost (localhost.localdomain) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=2059 id=mailman.0.1291321571.2582.listserv_test at mailman.domain
>2010-12-02 12:10:32 1POFU7-0000EJ-1n ** testuser-owner at canby.k12.or.us R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<testuser-owner at canby.k12.or.us>: host canby.k12.or.us.s9a1.psmtp.com [74.125.148.10]: 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try\n550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or\n550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at\n550 5.1.1 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6596 u3si2832748ybe.73
>2010-12-02 12:26:13 1POFjJ-0000fi-Ly <= <> R=1POFjI-0000ff-J2 U=exim P=local S=3394
>2010-12-02 12:26:13 1POFjI-0000ff-J2 Completed
>2010-12-02 12:26:14 1POFjJ-0000fi-Ly => listserv_test <listserv_test-bounces at mailman.domain> R=mailman_router T=mailman_transport
>2010-12-02 12:26:14 1POFjJ-0000fi-Ly Completed
>
>This testuser at canby.k12.or.us exists and able send/receive email without issue. 


Yes, but the message is being sent to testuser-owner at canby.k12.or.us
and the MX at canby.k12.or.us.s9a1.psmtp.com (postini ?) and that MX
doesn't know how to deliver to that address.

The problem is your list is configured with umbrella_list = Yes so all
administrative messages for member at example.com are sent to
member-owner at example.com (or whatever umbrella_member_suffix is set
to).

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