[Mailman-Users] Mailman lists are set up but posts to the lists arenot arriving

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:20, jhock <jhock at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 22:07 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> > jhock wrote:
> > >
> > >I have set up Mailman and can create lists etc. I can subscribe to the
> > >lists but I can't post to the lists. The posts don't get delivered.
> > >
> > >I have looked at the FAQs and searched the WIKI but I can't find an
> > >answer to my problem. I have been working on this for days. Cann someone
> > >please help me?
> > >
> > >I using:
> > >
> > >Mailman version: 2.1.14
> > >Python 2.5.2
> > >Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.5
> > >Exim version 4.69 #1 built 30-Sep-2008 18:54:33
> > >
> > >my configuration is:
> > >
> > >MAILMAN_USER = 'mailman'
> > >MAILMAN_GROUP = 'mailman'
> > >--with-mail-gid=Debian-exim --with-cgi-gid=www-data
> >
>
> >
> > The above is wrong. Assuming that
> >
> > MAILMAN_USER = 'mailman'
> > MAILMAN_GROUP = 'mailman'
> >
> > are from your exim config and
> >
> > --with-mail-gid=Debian-exim --with-cgi-gid=www-data
> >
> > were options to configure, it should have been
> >
> > --with-mail-gid=mailman
> >
> > I.e. whateve you configure with --with-mail-gid must match
> > MAILMAN_GROUP.
> >
> >
> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks for your prompt reply.
>
> The exim4 daemon runs with group id = Debian-exim. That is why I
> configured Mailman --with-mail-gid=Debian-exim. I assumed that the
> mail-gid was the group id of the mail daemon.
>
> However, I have reconfigured Mailman --with-mail-gid=mailman as you
> suggested.
>
> > >I have tried to apply to the content of section 6.2 in the
> > >mailman-2.1.14-1/doc/mailman-install.txt
> > >
> > >/etc/exim4/conf.d/main/04_local_mailman_macros
> > >/etc/exim4/conf.d/router/970_local_mailman
> > >/etc/exim4/conf.d/./transport/40_local_mailman
> >
> >
> > Did you read the note at the beginning of section 6.2 which says in
> > part "The updated document is here:
> > http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html and is recommended over the
> > information in the subsections below if you are using Exim 4."
> >
> >
>
> That document is even less helpful. It doesn't mention what files to add
> the lines:
>
> MM_HOME=/var/mailman
> MM_UID=mailman
> MM_GID=mailman
>
> and
>
> domainlist mm_domains=list.example.com
>
>
> There is nothing in the mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py that has MM_HOME
> etc. however there is reference to MAILMAN_HOME etc. Hence I used what
> was in the documentation with the mailman/doc/mailman-install.txt files.
>
> I have no idea in which file(s) to add the:
>
> accept  domains = +local_domains
>        endpass
>        message = unknown user
>        verify  = recipient
>  and
>
> accept hosts = 127.0.0.1
>
> content.
>
> The list verification output seemed to be correct so I guess the content
> of the mailman/docs/mailman-install.txt file worked expect that the
> messages were not getting through.
>
> I think that the exim4 needs to be changes to allow to and from external
> emails but I have no idea how to do this.
>
> > >The content of my:
> > >syslog
> > >apache error logs and
> > >mailman error logs
> > >
> > >tell me nothing that I can understand.
> >
> >
> > Well, you are coming here for help because we might be able to
> > understand what's in those logs, but not if we don't see them. The
> > apache logs aren't relevant to "can't post" issues, but the other's
> > are, so what's in them.
> >
>
> The entry in the exim4/rejectlog is:
>
> 2011-09-16 14:53:08 H=localhost (asdd.osdm.gov.au) [127.0.0.1]
> F=<mailman-bounces+info=mymaps.gov.au at mymaps.gov.au> temporarily
> rejected RCPT <info at mymaps.gov.au>: expected "sender[=address]",
> "recipient", "helo", "header_syntax", "header_sender" or
> "reverse_host_lookup" at start of ACL condition "verify recipients"
>
> I tried Googling part of that string but I didn't find anything to
> overcome the problem.
>
> The entry in the mailman/log/post file is:
>
> Sep 16 14:53:08 2011 (25420) post to mymaps-l from
> mailman-bounces at mymaps.gov.au, size=551,
> message-id=<mailman.1.1316133151.10188.mymaps-l at mymaps.gov.au>, 1
> failures
>
> The entry in the smtp file is:
>
> Sep 16 14:53:08 2011 (25420)
> <mailman.1.1316133151.10188.mymaps-l at mymaps.gov.au> smtp to mymaps-l for
> 1 recips, completed in 0.069 seconds
>
> The entries in the smtp-failure file are:
>
> Sep 16 14:53:08 2011 (25420) All recipients refused:
> {'info at mymaps.gov.au': (451, 'Temporary local problem - please try
> later')}, msgid: <mailman.1.1316133151.10188.mymaps-l at mymaps.gov.au>
> Sep 16 14:53:08 2011 (25420) delivery to info at mymaps.gov.au failed with
> code 451: Temporary local problem - please try later
>
> Does this help you tell me what I need to do?
>
>
You will need some Debian-centric instructions to achieve this.


http://albertech.net/2009/09/debian-installing-mailman-with-exim4/


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