Is is possible that you have a mail relay (read firewall) that
accepts/pre-processes mail for your domain? If so, you will need to
define a majordomo user/address there too.
Dan Liston
Dan Spray wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Liston [mailto:dliston@netscape.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 10:44 AM
> To: cpdans@conpoint.com; majordomo-users@greatcircle.com
> Subject: Re: Sorry to bother you
>
> Have you ever `su`d to majordomo? Tried to login as the majordomo
> user? I think RH6.x supports 9 character login names. I know 6.2
> does. -- Yes and it does work --
>
> Virtusertable is only used if you are doing virtual hosting, so most
> likely it is not needed.
>
> You do not have a majordomo entry in both aliases files do you? Then
> again, if you did, you would not get an error about duplicate entries
> from the newaliases command either. What error message do you get if
> you try to send to dliston@conpoint.com? Since I do not exist in your
> domain, the error should be similar to the one you are getting for
> majordomo. -- No just the one but I have tried both ways --
>
> Another thought just crossed my mind. If you used the RPM install, your
> majordomo home directory should be /usr/lib/majordomo and the data
> files, lists directory, etc., should be in /var/lib/majordomo. Is your
> /var/lib/majordomo-1.94.5 directory owned by majordomo? -- I compiled it
> myself, I learned long ago not to use rpm's for such things --
>
> The default version of sendmail in RH6.1 is 8.9.3. Have you left it as
> is, or upgraded? I am almost certain the error is more sendmail related
> than majordomo related, but I have to admit, at this point I am stumped.
> --I am still using the default which is 8.9.3 --
>
> Any more ideas? Thanks for the help.
>
> Dan Liston
>
> Dan Spray wrote:
> >
> > I changed the users home directory in /etc/passwd to
> > /var/lib/majordomo-1.94.5 which is where I installed majordomo. I know
> that
> > sendmail is parsing both alias files, my majordomo.aliases file looks like
> > this:
> >
> > majordomo: "|/var/lib/majordomo-1.94.5/wrapper majordomo"
> > majordomo-owner: cpdans@conpoint.com,
> > owner-majordomo: cpdans@conpoint.com
> >
> > I don't have any reference to majordomo in virtusertable at all (should
> I?)
> >
> > As far as the error that I am getting it looks like this:
> >
> > Invalid final delivery userid: majordomo
> >
> > Original message follows.
> >
> > Received: from DAN [192.168.1.23] by mail.CONPOINT.COM
> > (SMTPD32-6.00) id A2E51F20126; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:45:09 -0500
> > Reply-To: <cpdans@conpoint.com>
> > From: "Dan Spray" <cpdans@conpoint.com>
> > To: <majordomo@conpoint.net>
> > Subject: subscribe communique
> > Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:46:17 -0500
> > Message-ID: <A17A7DAD69B3D311833500104B76DA5021C0D4@CPOINT1>
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: text/plain;
> > charset="iso-8859-1"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
> > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
> > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700
> > Importance: Normal
> >
> > Once again thanks for all the help.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: majordomo-users-owner@GreatCircle.COM
> > [mailto:majordomo-users-owner@GreatCircle.COM]On Behalf Of Dan Liston
> > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 8:28 AM
> > To: majordomo-users@greatcircle.com
> > Subject: Re: Sorry to bother you
> >
> > Is /home/majordomo what you have in your aliases file for majordomo too
> > then? Did you install majordomo to /home/majordomo?
> >
> > Your alias looks like;
> > majordomo: "|/home/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"
> >
> > If you do a newaliases command as root, do status for both alias files
> > get displayed? I assume from your comment about logs that both
> > majordomo.aliases and aliases files are recognized by sendmail.
> >
> > If you are getting userid unknown, (550 I assume), majordomo is not
> > being found in either the aliases, virtusertable, or passwd files. If
> > it is found, it is pointing/redirecting
> > to a user that does not exist.
> >
> > Dan Liston
> >
> > Dan Spray wrote:
> > >
> > > There is a user of majordomo on the system, his home directory is
> > > /home/majordomo. Is that alright. Also I did tell sendmail to parse
> the
> > > aliases file also and the logs say that it is. Do you have any other
> > ideas?
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: dliston@sonny.org [mailto:dliston@sonny.org]On Behalf Of Dan
> > > Liston
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 7:44 AM
> > > To: cpdans@conpoint.com; Majordomo Users
> > > Subject: Re: Sorry to bother you
> > >
> > > Dan Spray wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I am sorry to bother you but I am on the Majordomo list and have been
> > > trying
> > > > for 2 days now to post my question and it doesn't seem to be posting.
> I
> > am
> > > > receiving correctly but I just can't submit a question. Anyway I
> > noticed
> > > > that you seem to be answering most of the questions so maybe you can
> > help
> > > > me out. I admit that I am new to Majordomo and don't know much about
> it
> > > but
> > > > I am running it on RH6.1 with sendmail and using the majordomo.aliases
> > > file.
> > > > I have also set the majordomo alias in the aliases file and I know
> that
> > > > sendmail is parsing that aliases file according to the sendmail.
> > However
> > > > when I send a mail to majordomo@conpoint.net I get a userid unknown.
> I
> > > know
> > > > that I am probably just missing something easy but it is missing none
> > the
> > > > less.
> > >
> > > Two things; First, make sure you have a majordomo (or majordom) in your
> > > /etc/passwd file so that majordomo is also a valid user on your system.
> > > Second, you need to check your sendmail.cf for "O AliasesFile" and be
> > > sure you have included a fully qualified path to your majordomo.aliases
> > > file. You can do this all on one line or across multiple lines.
> > > Examples;
> > >
> > > # location of alias file
> > > O AliasFile=/etc/aliases
> > > O AliasFile=/etc/mail/majordomo.aliases
> > >
> > > # location of alias file
> > > O AliasFile=/etc/aliases,/etc/mail/majordomo.aliases
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for any help that you could give I do apologize for
> > > > bothering you personally and realize that if you can't answer the
> > question
> > > > that is fine. However if you could also tell me why I may not be able
> > to
> > > > post a question to the list that would be very helpful also. Thanks
> > > again.
> > > >
> > > > Dan Spray
> > >
> > > I am afraid I cannot help you with how long it takes to get a message
> > > posted. I have noticed some of my posts also take a long time to get
> > > into the list, but others arrive almost instantly. This would probably
> > > be a question for majordomo-owner at greatcircle.
> > >
> > > Dan Liston
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