[lug] Mailman woes...

[J. Wayde Allen]

On 19 Mar 2002, Shannon Johnston wrote:

> I've got my system running exim and mailman.
> Exim seems to be working alright, it sends emails out just fine.
> However, when I try to send email out via the mailing list, I find this
> in my maillog:
> 
> Mar 19 12:08:49 mailer exim[22755]: 2002-03-19 12:08:49 16mSQi-00060k-00
> ** mailman@: mail domain "" is syntactically invalid
> Mar 19 12:08:49 mailer exim[22756]: 2002-03-19 12:08:49 16nN6P-0005v2-00
> Error while reading message with no usable sender address
> (R=16mSQi-00060k-00): at least one malformed recipient address: mailman@
> - domain missing or malformed
> Mar 19 12:08:49 mailer exim[22755]: 2002-03-19 12:08:49 16mSQi-00060k-00
> Process failed (1) when writing error message to mailman@ (frozen)
> 
> 
> This shows up in the $MAILMAN/logs/smtp-failure
> 
> Mar 19 12:09:00 2002 (22825) -1 nunar at nunar.com (ignore)

Taking a closer look at your error messages it looks to me like your
sender address is not getting set correctly, and/or you are trying to
deliver to an address that isn't completely specified.  Not sure about the
sender issues, but it could be that mailman is trying to deliver mail to
an address that doesn't exist - in particular <mailman@>.  Could it be
you've got an errant @ symbol somewhere, or maybe a missing
mailman at localhost or ...?

- Wayde
  (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)