Mailing list problems

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yiqiang

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Problems with Mailing List

I used to have 3-4 Mailing lists that was working.

Now all of them dont work.
I didnt realise it until i setup a new mailing list today.

Sending to that mailing list didnt give any error.. no bounces etc.
But no one (including myself) received that email.

I checked my main account email address and say Mail Delivery Error.

The content in that email is as follows, please note that i changed my domain name to domain.com for privacy sake.

This is a MIME-encapsulated message

--jABFtKA0090120.1131724520/sg.domain.com

The original message was received at Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:55:20 +0800 (SGT)
from majordomo@localhost

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
[email protected]
(reason: 550 "Unknown User")
(expanded from: [email protected])

----- Transcript of session follows -----
.... while talking to localhost.domain.com.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 "Unknown User"
550 5.1.1 [email protected]... User unknown
<<< 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA

--jABFtKA0090120.1131724520/sg.domain.com
Content-Type: message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; sg.domain.com
Arrival-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:55:20 +0800 (SGT)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; localhost.domain.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 "Unknown User"
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:55:20 +0800 (SGT)

--jABFtKA0090120.1131724520/sg.domain.com
Content-Type: text/rfc822-headers

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: (from majordomo@localhost)
by sg.bizwebasia.com (8.13.4/8.12.6/Submit) id jABFtK9x090120
for [email protected]; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:55:20 +0800 (SGT)
X-Authentication-Warning: sg.domain.com: majordomo set sender to [email protected] using -f
Received: from smtp42.singnet.com.sg ([165.21.103.146])
by sg.bizwebasia.com with esmtp (Exim 4.52)
id 1EabFH-000NRT-Sk
for [email protected]; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:55:19 +0800
Received: from ovscan51.singnet.com.sg (ovscan51.singnet.com.sg [165.21.101.95])
by smtp42.singnet.com.sg (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jABFtMTM012379
for <[email protected]>; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:55:22 +0800
Received: from smtp18.singnet.com.sg (smtp18.singnet.com.sg [165.21.6.38])
by ovscan51.singnet.com.sg (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jABFtLik009309
for <[email protected]>; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:55:21 +0800
Received: from pumpkin (bb219-74-192-191.singnet.com.sg [219.74.192.191])
by smtp18.singnet.com.sg (8.13.5/8.13.4) with SMTP id jABFtLEl028876
for <[email protected]>; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:55:21 +0800
Message-ID: <1bd101c5e6d8$6e45cdc0$0300000a@pumpkin>
From: "YiQiang" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [Project Biz] Test
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:56:08 +0800
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300
X-PMX-Version: 4.7.0.111621
Sender: [email protected]
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: [email protected]

--jABFtKA0090120.1131724520/sg.domain.com--

Hope someone can help me.
Would really appreciate it.. thanks!
 
no i havent..
dont see why this is happening all of a sudden.

Nothing was changed on the box.
 
Check exim.conf and make sure that the director for majordomo_aliases is intact.

Then, check the file /etc/virtual/<domain>/majordomo/list.aliases and make sure that you have an entry for "project-biz-out" and that the alias for that name resolves to a real account.

If all that looks right, I'd do some exim tracing and see why exim isn't resolving the alias and throwing an unknown user.
 
Did you ever get this fixed? I am having the same issue today. I created my first list but am getting a 550 unknown user when I send to it.

Phil
 
I have one account that can't use the mailing list. I can set up and use them on another account but any that gets setup on this one account doesn't get sent out the mail comes back when trying to send to the list.

Reporting-MTA: dns; ns4.ISP.net
Arrival-Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 23:41:38 -0400 (EDT)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; [email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host [email protected][IP.adress.] said:
550 (in reply to RCPT TO command)

Thank you for any help
 
It's hard to determine what the problem is based on what you posted. Usually there is more information between the 550 and the (in reply to RCPT TO command). That information tells you why it couldn't deliver the message.

Based on what I do see, the mailing list software sent the email correctly and the receiving MTA bounced it back to the list owner. Perhaps the user doesn't exist (typo).
 
well I have the same problem.

de exim rejectlog says:

2006-04-06 18:48:00 H=ccc5.ccchosting.nl [84.243.235.23] F=<[email protected]> rejected RCPT <[email protected]>:


This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

[email protected]
SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>:
host mail.ccc12.nl [84.243.235.44]: 550 "Unknown User"

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <[email protected]>
Received: from 82-171-146-144.dsl.ip.tiscali.nl ([82.171.146.144] helo=ccc69iadela392)
by ccc5.ccchosting.nl with esmtpa (Exim 4.50)
id 1FRXmu-00027U-AF
for [email protected]; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:56:52 +0200
From: "CCC Hosting" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: hoi
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 18:56:44 +0200
Message-ID: <00a401c6599b$160de490$2201a8c0@ccc69iadela392>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
Importance: Normal
 
I found the problem!

The direcory etc/virtual/domain.nl/majordomo has the permision 0700, change this to 0771 and it will work!
 
I don't know how yours got set to 700. All of ours are set to 711, which works as it should.

Nothing/no-one can enter a directory without the execute bit set.

I've merged two similar threads into one.

Jeff
 
I had the same problem ..unknown user.
chmod 0771 and now it works.
Question is why this happened?
I created another list on new domain and it worked fine permissions were created correctly.

I did udate exim while the firest list was built not sure why that would mess things up.

anyway just some info....hope someone figures out why this is happening.
Rmday
 
Who was the owner of the majordomo directory? That could be why changing the permissions helped. Mine look like this:
Code: 
drwxr-x--x  5 majordomo daemon 4096 Apr 11 14:06 majordomo
 
mine looks like this after the chmod
drwxrwx--x 5 majordomo daemon 4096 Apr 19 01:16 majordomo
 
Majordomo needs that first 7 (rwx), so the question would be "what was it like before the chmod?".

Jeff
 
It probably needs those other two "x" characters as in directories that means "enter into".

If they're not there nothing not owned by majordomo can read anything in the directory.

Jeff
 
I found this error on some servers as well. Not sure what causes it yet...probably something John needs to look at.
 
The setting to 700 (instead of 711) was probably caused by the restore (from user_backups) operation.

This was the case for all domains that I moved to a different server using the back-up/restore facility.

Note: the problem doesn't show if the catch-all mailbox is "On".
 
I can confirm I had exactly this problem on the latest version of DA.

I have however restored from backup on this server although I did create the mailing list shortly after this took place.

I chmodded to 711 and it instantly started working.
 
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