Topic: Mailman contrib installation

[steveo]

Hi all, I downloaded and installed mailman contrib from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/contrib/MichaelSoulier/6.0/RPMS/, but I think I made a bit of a mess of the installation.

I ran into some problems because I received bounce notifications from qmail for a list I created (I also deleted the mailman list and 'service mailman restart' caused an error). I uninstalled the mailman (mailman-2.1.5-23es02.i386.rpm) and e-smith-mailman (e-smith-mailman-1.1.10-03.noarch.rpm) packages and ended up re installing with rpm -Uvh *.rpm --force.

I seem to have got it working again now, but there is a problem with the mailman e-smith panel - when I set mailman status to enabled and click save the panel page goes blank (although as I say it seems to be working).

Any ideas about how to fix the panel?

I have also noted that the package(s) install a number of 'e-smith events', for example "/etc/e-smith/events/actions/mailman-addlist". To date I have been using the bin utilities within mailman, ie "/opt/mailman/bin/newlist" to create and delete lists.

Should I be using the e-smith list actions instead?

Also I have created a few test lists in the primary domain, but would like to change these to the lists.primary.domain subdomain - How can I do this?

Thanks for any help on this.

[steveo]

I've got mailman working (except for the panel problem) on a subdomain "lists" ie lists.domain.org.

I can put people on the list, can send invitations to the members and they can subscribe by replying to the invitation message. However, I cannot seem to send anything to the list - I get 'bouncers' from qmail with: "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name". Here is the full bouncer (with domain names / address changed):

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Hi. This is the qmail-send program at foo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<mail.list@servername.foo.com>:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <admin@foo.com>
Received: (qmail 23063 invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2005 04:22:33 -0000
Delivered-To: alias-localdelivery-
list.name@lists.foo.com
Received: (qmail 23060 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2005 04:22:33 -0000
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavis-ng-0.1.6.4-03dc on servername.foo.com
Received: from 000d93f093c2.foo.com (HELO [192.168.1.2]) (192.168.1.2)
  by servername.foo.com (192.168.1.150) with ESMTP; 23 Sep 2005 04:22:32 -0000
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <17989379-4F7D-4EAC-9EFD-A495F72C1990@edenmonarolabour.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
To: list.name@lists.foo.com
From: Steven Curren <admin@foo.com>
Subject: test message to list
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:22:31 +1000
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734)

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I have some mailman aliases, along these lines

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/opt/mailman/aliases/.qmail-list.name


How can I tell if there is a mailbox for the list?

[steveo]

It would seem that the list does not work with an email address in the format first.second@foo.com - it works with first_second@foo.com.

Strange, i've setup lists with the former format (first.second@) in mailman before!