Mailing list issues

[Matchstick]

I spoke to support folks on AIM and through email, but it doesn't seem like the answers I'm getting are accurate, so I figured I'd post here so that I can hash my problem out. I'm on a semi-dedicated box and wanted to setup a mailing list (which is advertised as being supported). I went through the mailman interface that I reached through cPanel and set everything up. I'm a savvy Unix person, so I understand how these things work under the covers. I haven't used mailman, but I've run a few others (including things like majordomo). Once I get everything set up, though, when I try to send something to the mailing list, I get an error back that looks like this:

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:

pipe to |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/wrapper post admins_xblracing.com
generated by admins@xblracing.com
Child process of virtual_address_pipe transport returned 69 (could mean service or program unavailable) from command:
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/wrapper

Digging online for info on this, I found two answers in the exim FAQ that dealt with this issue:
http://www.ie.exim.org/exim-html-4.0...AQ_0.html#TOC3
http://www.ie.exim.org/exim-html-4.0...Q_0.html#TOC26

Since I don't have access to the real filesystem, I can't check on either of these to see what's what.

The last response I got back from support said that I was trying to send email to a mailing list and that I couldn't do that. What exactly is a mailing list for, then, if I can't send email to it?

One additional problem, when I go to edit the mailing list info (after clicking "Edit" from the screen with all the mailing lists), I get an error, because the href is pointing to the reseller name rather than my host name and that record doesn't exist in DNS.

[GatorBrent]

you got the idea of the mailing list all wrong. Tried explaining that when we chatted..



You seem to think you email the mailing list and then it emails everyone else.

It is not that kind of mailing list. This mailing list you only email the people in the list nobody can email the list to have it email everyone. Its used to email a group of people with a click of a button.

Your free to install any mailing list you wish, although I have no idea what that would be.

I added that server to our dns so you won't be seing that error. Good luck on finding that type of email list you are looking for.

[CRySSiS]

http://scripts.php-developers.net/ This looks like a decent one. Should solve your problem.

Client Side demo: http://scripts.php-developers.net/mail/start.php
Admin Demo: http://scripts.php-developers.net/ma...admin/send.php

This ones free. Contact me if you need help installing it.

[Matchstick]

Originally Posted by Gator_Support

It is not that kind of mailing list. This mailing list you only email the people in the list nobody can email the list to have it email everyone. Its used to email a group of people with a click of a button.

I guess this is why I didn't think you understood my questions, since what I'm asking about is exactly what the mailman software is supposed to do. Their own description of their software is:

Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists.

What you're talking about I'd call an exploder or address book (or, I guess, the e-newsletter they mention). I had said before that it worked from the server you're hosting, but that actually was wrong. Only the subscription message went to the subscribed email addresses. I don't see anywhere that I can send something to a list I've created with the click of a button. Perhaps I've missed something in the webmail interface.

By the way, none of this is a complaint. I'm trying to understand how to operate in the environment you guys have set up. I'm used to running the box from soup to nuts, so I'd be going in and tweaking the alias file by hand or something like that. In a sendmail configuration, what would need to happen is to add an alias that maps the mailing list ID to the mailman wrapper. With exim and virtual domains, I'm not sure what is supposed to happen. I might dig around a bit more and see if I can figure it out.

I added that server to our dns so you won't be seing that error.

Great. Thanks for that.