[Mailman-Users] exim says 'unrouteable' on new list

[Mark Sapiro]

Rich Lott wrote:
>
>I have exim4 and mailman running successfully on my server. I have a 
>working list that runs at somelistname at artfulrobot.com and a working web 
>admin iface. All good.
>
>But now I want to set up a new list under a subdomain for another 
>client. This list name does not clash with my other list, and it is does 
>not clash with a username on the server.
>
>I set it up with this command
>
>$ newlist -e maybe.artfulrobot.com -u artfulrobot.com community
>
>I used the web iface to mass subscribe my own email address, and I got a 
>"welcome" message. But when I try to send to the list, it bounces back.
>
>Nb. I can email someotheruser at maybe.artfulrobot.com and receive it at 
>someotheruser's normal user account.
>
>I looked at the output from this command:
>$ exim4 -d -bt community at maybe.artfulrobot.com
>
>to see why it was failing. Output below.
>
>Basically, it seems that mm has not registered 
>community at maybe.artfulrobot.com in data/virtual-mailman.


I don't know how you are routing and delivering Mailman's incoming mail
in Exim, but you are apparently not following the recommended method
described at <http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html>.

If you rely on data/virtual-mailman, you need to have the following in
mm_cfg.py.

MTA = 'Postfix'
POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [..., 'maybe.artfulrobot.com']

where ... is your other list email domain(s) that you presumably had
since it was working.


>I've read lots of postings, docs etc. but gotten nowhere. I've tried 
>fiddling with /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py, adding things like:
>
>MTA=None (and MTA='None')


It's MTA = None, not 'None', but as I said above you want MTA =
'Postfix'.


>add_virtualhost('maybe.artfulrobot.com','maybe.artfulrobot.com' )

This should be

add_virtualhost('artfulrobot.com', 'maybe.artfulrobot.com')

unless you already have another add_virtualhost with artfulrobot.com
(or DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'artfulrobot.com') as the url host. If that is
the case, it is probably best to omit this add_virtualhost and have

VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = Off

instead.

>POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [ 'artfulrobot.com', 
>'maybe.artfulrobot.com']


And you do want this.


>Each change I've restarted MM. Tried and got the unrouteable error again.


Because restarting Mailman doesn't change anything. You need to run
Mailman's bin/genaliases to rebuild virtual-mailman after adding
'maybe.artfulrobot.com' to POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS.

See below for more.


>Can anyone help?! thanks...
>
>Rich
>
>
>
>--------> mailman_router router <--------
>local_part=community domain=maybe.artfulrobot.com
>checking domains
>cached yes match for +local_domains
>cached lookup data = NULL
>maybe.artfulrobot.com in "+local_domains"? yes (matched "+local_domains" 
>- cached)
>checking require_files
>file check: /var/lib/mailman/lists/$local_part/config.pck
>expanded file: /var/lib/mailman/lists/community/config.pck
>stat() yielded 0


It appears you are using something like the router described at
<http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html>, but you have this extra
condition below requiring virtual-mailman. I suggest you remove that
from your Exim mailman router and follow the recommendations in the
howto.


>checking "condition"
>search_open: lsearch "/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman"
>search_find: file="/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman"
>   key="community at maybe.artfulrobot.com" partial=-1 affix=NULL starflags=0
>LRU list:
>   :/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
>   :/etc/aliases
>   End
>internal_search_find: file="/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman"
>   type=lsearch key="community at maybe.artfulrobot.com"
>file lookup required for community at maybe.artfulrobot.com
>   in /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
>lookup failed
>mailman_router router skipped: condition failure
>no more routers
>search_tidyup called
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Exim pid=2959 terminating with rc=2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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