relaying? was: Re: mailman doesn't receive mail?

[Matt Price]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 04:01:53PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying hard to get mailman working on a ubuntu (breezy, 5.10)  server.  
> 
> I have now tried both postfix and exim4 and neither seems to work.
> the situation:
> 
> - mailman service starts without error
> - mailman web pages etc. all look good.
> - mailman sends out subscription messages just fine
> - BUT: nothing sent to the list addresses works at all.
> 
> as I said, this same situation seems to pertain whether I'm using
> postfix or exim.  
> 
> This is on a server that hosts several domains, e.g.,
> *.racesci.org
> *.derailleur.org
> 
> I have tried 
> - the vanilla setup, no ocnfiguration added
> - the instructions in "README.Debian.gz"
> - the instructions in "READMIN.[Postfix/Exim].gz
> - the wiki.ubuntu.com mailman instructions (virtually idential to those in README.Exim.gz
> 
> anyone seen this before?  any suggestions? I have already "apt-get
> remove --purge" various packages, but have yet to remove the list
> archives (I have some lists inherited from another server, which ran
> an earlier version of mailman on debian/sid.  But I don't see
> thatthey'rethe problem...).
> 
> appreciate whateverh elp can be given!
> 

starting to find some clues in the exim4 log:  I suspect it has
something to do withthe multiple hostnames somehow.  Look at this
(thought I'd bewst munge the addresses & such a bit):

2005-11-11 16:12:10 exim 4.52 daemon started: pid=30795, -q30m,
listening for SMTP on port 25 (IPv6 and IPv4)
2005-11-11 16:12:10 Start queue run: pid=30796
2005-11-11 16:12:10 1Eag78-0007tj-Ej == |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman
post testlist <testlist at www.derailleur - dot - org> R=system_defer aliases
(-30): pipe_transport unset in system_aliases router
2005-11-11 16:12:10 1EafoT-0007bG-RF == |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman
post anothertest <anothertest at www.racesci - dot - org> R=system_aliases defer (-30): pipe_transport unset in system_aliases router
2005-11-11 16:12:10 End queue run: pid=30796
2005-11-11 16:13:28 H=tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.110]
F=<ma44 - at -mail.derailleur - dot - org> rejected RCPT <ma44 - at -derailleur - dot - org>:
relay not permitted
2005-11-11 16:13:28 H=tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.110]
F=<> rejected RCPT <ma44 - at -mail.derailleur - dot - org>: relay not permitted
2005-11-11 16:14:10 H=tomts5.bellnexxia.net
(tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) [209.226.175.25]
F=<ma44 - at -mail.derailleur - dot - org> rejected RCPT <ma44 - at -racesci - dot - org>: relay not permitted
2005-11-11 16:14:10 H=tomts5.bellnexxia.net
(tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) [209.226.175.25] F=<> rejected RCPT
<ma44 - at -mail.derailleur - dot - org>: relay not permitted
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2 kinds of errors here:

"relay not permitted" -- I think this might have been happening with
postfix too.  Is this ane error that needs to be fixed in
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config?  I tried a couple of things, didn't
seem to work.

"pipe_transport unset in system_aliases router" -- is this something I
should set in /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/ somewhere? I confess the
syntax of these files ocnfuses me.

anyway, I'm really baffled, but have some clues, not really quite sure
what to do next.

matt


> thanks,
> 
> matt
>  
> 
> 
> Matt Price	    matt.price at utoronto.ca
> History Department, University of Toronto
> (416) 978-2094
> 
> The following addresses are for you if you're an evil spambot:
> zeus at derailleur.org aardvark at derailleur.org
> 

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Matt Price	    matt.price at utoronto.ca
History Department, University of Toronto
(416) 978-2094
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