The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

["Todd Cole" <address@concealed>]

Gentlemen,

Once again, thank you for your help.  We have gone back to square one,
re-installed the entire Mandrake distribution (just to make sure we are
clean) and this is where we are:

1)  Users can subscribe to lists using wwsympa.fcgi.
2)  Users receive confirmation messages from SYMPA upon subscribing to a
list.

We are still, however, having two serious problems:

1)  Using wwsympa.fcgi users are able to post a message (which provides
a send_mail:  action succeeded confirmation).  These postings, however,
just seem to disappear and are never delivered to subscribers.

2)  Attempting to post by mailing directly to the list results in a
message from SYMPA that states, 

"This is an automatic response sent by Sympa Mailing Lists Manager.

The following address is not a known mailing list :"

We are getting this message even though the list appears in wwsympa.fcgi
and was created there initially???

Please let me know if you can offer any suggestions for correcting the
above issues.

-Todd


Todd G. Cole 
Vice President and CIO 
Online Vacation Center 
1801 NW 66th Avenue, Suite 102 
Plantation, FL 33313-4534 
phone: (954) 377-6424
fax:     (954) 377-6368
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Luc Brouard (mailing lists) [mailto:address@concealed] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 4:23 AM
To: address@concealed
Subject: RE: [sympa-users] Initial List Creation

You didn't put the correct aliases in postfix.
Normally sympa put aliases in /etc/aliases (sometines it doesn't
have write permission to the file so you have to do it by yourself)
and then you do newaliases to create the new database.

I don't have access to my aliases right now but when you create a
list with wwsympa, it should told you the aliases needed (4 or 5 per
lists IIRC)

regards



Todd Cole said:
> Harald,
>
> Thank you very much for your assistance.  This is where we are at the
> moment:
>
> 1)  We have been able to access Sympa using wwsympa.cfgi, and to
create
> lists and subscribe users.  Users receive a confirmation email from
> Sympa when they are subscribed.
>
> 2)  Postings to the lists created in wwsympa.cfgi are NOT delivered to
> users subscribed to the list.  (We receive an "action_succeeded"
> message but the posting never arrives.)  When users attempt to post to
> a list via email, they receive a message similar to the following:
>
> "This is the Postfix program at host wheezy.ovcamex.com.
>
> I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
> below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
>
> For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>
>
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> delete your own text from the message returned below.
>
> The Postfix program
>
> <address@concealed>: unknown user: "test" "
>
> Any thoughts on why the subscription confirmations would be delivered
> successfully but the postings would not?  Thanks again for your help.
>
> -Todd
>
> Todd G. Cole
> Vice President and CIO
> Online Vacation Center
> 1801 NW 66th Avenue, Suite 102
> Plantation, FL 33313-4534
> phone: (954) 377-6424
> fax:     (954) 377-6368
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Wilhelmi [mailto:address@concealed]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 6:12 AM
> To: address@concealed
> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Initial List Creation
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:53:34PM +0100, address@concealed wrote:
>> Can someone provide me with a simple 1-2-3 on how to create an
initial
>> list?  I have looked through the Sympa documentation and also
searched
>> Google Groups but have been unable to locate what I believe is a
> pretty
>> simple step.
>
> Methode A
> =========
>
> Use WWSympa.
> 1) Ask WWSympa to send you your listmaster-Password.
> 2) Login as Listmaster.
> 3) Select List create button (just on top of the page, right to the
> logout
>   button) to get the list creation request form.
> 4) Fill out the missing data and confirm it.
>
> Mostly the same procedure is possible for normal users in the default
> configuration, but a confirmation is needed by the list master
> (WWSympa or a email command).
>
> Methode B
> =========
>
> The manual way. Most useful if you have migrate a large number of
lists
> from some other mailing list system or simular.
>
> 1) cd ~sympa/expl
> 2) mkdir list-name
> 3) cd list-name
> 4) Create a file config there. You may find some nice starting points
>   in ~sympa/bin/etc/create_list_templates/*/config.tpl.
> 5) Add some more files there if you like:
>   * info (may contain list discribtion)
>   * message.footer
>   * welcome.tpl
> 6) If you have configured archives, create a directory to put them in:
>
>       mkdir archives
>
> 7) Be sure that anything is accessible (including write permission)
for
>   for sympa/sympa:
>
>       chown sympa *
>       chgrp sympa *
>       chmod u+w *
>
> Now you can add users. Sometimes I needed to take some manual steps in
> ~sympa/arc to make the archiver working. But I just can't remeber
under
> wich cirumstancers that happened. However this will become obvious if
> you look into the syslog messages while sending your first test
emails.
>
> --
>
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