problem with mailman

[Adam McGreggor]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:11:09PM -0600, Scott Berry wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I have Mailman set up with Exim and followed the instructions in the server
> documentation.  Everything seems to work except for two things:
> 
> 1.  When I send the confirmation message back once Mailman has sent me the
> confirmation to join the list I do not get a response.

Firstly, is the Mailman runner running, and I take it you've read the
docs telling you you need to create the site-list, usually, 'Mailman'.

   exim -bt listname at example.org ?

You may have welcome messages switched off, too.

> 2.  I cannot send any messages and I don't see my messages returning.

Are you a member of the list?

> 3.  I looked in the /etc/aliases and it looks like my list I just added was
> not added to the aliases file.  Here are what I have for a few of my files:
> Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance.

Depends on the config as to if you need to have (etc-)aliases(5)
entries, but the "Mailman ... Configuration For Exim" (and the
'mmailman_transport Starts Here' & 'Mailman Router Begins Here' 
lines should be commented out. 

Is Mailman running as mailman:mailman, or list:list?

I dunno if the Pkg-Exim4 config messes around too much with the
Mailman/Exim interaction: I don't bother with what, to me, is a 
travesty of packaging, and use a hand-crafted exim4.conf, 
and sometimes, a self-compiled version of exim...