[Mailman-Users] Fwd: Installing http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/mailman, stuck at "Temporary failure"

[Mark Sapiro]

On 12/22/2016 10:19 AM, Caesar Samsi wrote:
> 
> I’m starting from scratch but with the 2.1.23 mailman package found
> here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/mailman I took the amd64 .deb
> package http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/amd64/mailman/download.
...
> Note that Postfix services virtual domain. 
> 
> Now I
> follow: https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/postfix-virtual.html


This is for a source install. While some of it is relevant, your package
also installed a bunch of things in /usr/share/doc/mailman/, in
particular, /usr/share/doc/mailman/README.Debian. Have you read that?

...
> I added, from one of my previous install I had a file called
> /etc/postfix/transport with the content of:
> mail.yugi.us <http://mail.yugi.us>    mailman:


This is for postfix_to_mailman.py. See <https://wiki.list.org/x/15564817>.


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>> Dec 22 09:50:05 mail postfix/smtp[6025]: 6C0733FC22:
>> to=<mailman at yugi.us>,
>> relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=2.6, delays=0.1/0.03/0.01/2.5,
>> dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA(smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10025):
>> 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as DCB473FC72)
> 
>> Dec 22 09:50:05 mail postfix/qmgr[5982]: 6C0733FC22: removed
>>
>> Dec 22 09:50:05 mail postfix/smtp[6031]: DCB473FC72:
>> to=<mailman at yugi.us>, relay=yugi.us
>> <http://yugi.us>[216.9.1.153]:25, delay=0.52,
>> delays=0.06/0.03/0.07/0.35, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (host yugi.us
>> <http://yugi.us>[216.9.1.153] said: 451 4.3.0 <caesar at samsi.us>:
>> Temporary lookup failure (in reply to RCPT
>> TO command))


I'm a bit confused here. The initial entry above says the message to
mailman at yugi.us was relayed via some service (amavis ?) at
127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024 which queued the message as DCB473FC72. Then
the next entry processing that queue ID says the message to
mailman at yugi.us is deferred because of a failure looking up
caesar at samsi.us which is the sender. It looks like Postfix is trying to
do some sort of sender verification which fails.

To say more, I'd need to see the output of 'postconf -n', but please
note that this list is not the primary support resource for either
Postfix or the Debian/Ubuntu Mailman package. See
<https://wiki.list.org/x/12812344>.

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