[Mailman-Users] New list's SMTP failures

[Nick Wyman]

Mark, thank you for your reply.

Yes, the hostname variable for the list is correct.  The posting emails from the list are delivered correctly.

I now think this is due to a spam email which was sent to mailman at mydomain.com  (it's stuck in my mail queue) which is somehow erroneously being processed by mailman and routed to this particular list's owners, but with a bad sender address.  

Does this seem plausible?  

I see a "mailman" list in /etc/aliases and ../mailman/lists, but there isn't a "mailman" list in my web config.  I did dump the configuration for the "mailman" list via config_list and hostname is set correctly.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mailman-Users [mailto:mailman-users-
> bounces+nwyman=viablecomputing.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Mark
> Sapiro
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 10:34 AM
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] New list's SMTP failures
> 
> On 11/01/2017 07:41 AM, Nick Wyman wrote:
> >
> > On a server which hosts several mailman lists, a new list is exhibiting odd
> behavior for owner email addresses.  There are two owners, and both are
> receiving post emails, but are also bouncing what I assume are administrative
> emails.
> >
> > The smtp-failure log looks like:
> >
> > Nov 01 09:37:09 2017 (1387) delivery to <scrubbed> failed with code 553:
> 5.1.8 <scrubbed>... Domain of sender address mailman-bounces at com does not
> exist
> 
> 
> If it actually says "mailman-bounces at com", go to the list's web admin UI
> and look at the setting for host_name near the bottom of the General
> Options page. It will be "com". Set it to the actual correct email
> domain name for this list.
> 
> 
> > Note that the sender address is incorrect (default value?).  Regular posting
> emails are delivered with the correct sender address (foo-
> bounces at domain.com).
> >
> > Using config_list to inspect the non-working list against a working list
> produces only the expected differences.
> 
> 
> It doesn't show a difference in the host_name setting?
> 
> --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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