mailman

[William Carty]

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 14:48, Walls, Bryan wrote:
> Anyone using Mailman for lists? I have a problem with mail not going out.
> All the webpages work, I can set up lists, mail goes out to list members
> when I sign them up, but when I actually send a message to the list, it
> never goes out to the people on it.
> 
> I tried compiling the latest release and following directions there. I
> suspect it has to do with the sendmail process not being able to run the
> wrapper program linked from smrsh, but I configured with the proper group
> setting (12, the mail group). Hints for what's missing are welcome.

Does the mail actually bounce?  Or does it simply sit in the queue?  If
it bounces, you may want to forward the bounced message which should say
exactly what the problem is.

One thing you may check...  I don't know whether you have sendmail
working as anything more than a local daemon.  Check your
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc file & look for the section 'DAEMON_OPTIONS'.  The
default sendmail behavior changed a few releases back & now it only
listens on the loopback address.  If, for instance, you have your web
server on one box & sendmail on another box that might cause you similar
problems.  At any rate, if you plan on using sendmail to do more than
send mail between local users it's a good idea to go ahead & comment
that out anyway.  Do that & restart sendmail.