[techtalk] mailman help

[JLG]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Aaron Malone wrote:

Thanks for the swift reply!


> Have you looked at the mail logs on the server where mailman is installed
> to see what's happening to this mail?  That would be the first place I'd
> look, to see if the mail is actually being delivered correctly.


here's  asnip of the maillog that gives an example of the error message
I'm getting:


sendmail[384]: MAA25674: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner
modtest", delay=1+02:29:27, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Operating
system error
Aug  9 14:54:22 gundam
sendmail[384]: MAA25698: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd modtest",
delay=1+02:27:22, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Operating system
error
Aug  9 14:54:22 gundam
sendmail[384]: MAA25715: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd modtest",
delay=1+02:22:27, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Operating system
error
Aug  9 14:54:35 gundam sendmail[421]: OAA00421: forward
/usr/share/mailman/.forward.gundam: Group writable directory
Aug  9 14:54:35 gundam sendmail[421]: OAA00421: forward
/usr/share/mailman/.forward: Group writable directory

___and____

[jg at gundam jg]$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -v -q

Running OAA00380 (sequence 1 of 30)
"|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd listfoo"... Connecting to prog...
"|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd listfoo"... Operating system error

 
> > When I set up mailman on a RedHat box, I had to add a link
to the > 'wrapper' program in /etc/smrsh before sendmail would accept mail
> addressed to that program.  I don't know if the RPM does this
> automatically, you might want to check that as well.

This has been done.

> 
> Also, be sure to add the aliases output when you create a new list to
> /etc/aliases -- though if you hadn't done that, you should be getting
> bounce messages.
> 

this has been done as well.


Thanks!

Jen

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