Re: No reply from majordomo

[Marius Schamschula <marius @ caos . aamu . edu>]

On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 10:13 PM, Daniel Liston wrote:

> Assuming sendmail is installed and functional, you can test aliases with
> sendmail -bv alias@your.domain
>
> an alias of
> nobody: /dev/null
> would be tested like this;
> # sendmail -bv nobody@your.domain
> /dev/null... deliverable: mailer *file*, user /dev/null
>
> To test your distribution list,
> # sendmail -bv listname@your.domain
> "|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l listname listname-outgoing,nobody"... deliverable: mailer prog, user "|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l listname listname-outgoing,nobody"
> and
> # sendmail -bv listname-outgoing@your.domain
> me@my.domain... deliverable: mailer local, user me
> someuser@netscape.net... deliverable: mailer relay, host smarthost.example.net, user someuser@netscape.net

> The above shows the -outgoing address expands to the per user delivery of the list's :include: file, and that non-local recipient mail is sent through a smarthost.


There seems to be a problem expanding, For example, I get

bash-2.05a# sendmail -bv physics@physics.aamu.edu
physics@physics.aamu.edu... deliverable: mailer local, user physics
bash-2.05a# sendmail -bv majordomo@physics.aamu.edu
majordomo@physics.aamu.edu... deliverable: mailer local, user majordomo
bash-2.05a# sendmail -bv physics-list@physics.aamu.edu
physics-list@physics.aamu.edu... deliverable: mailer local, user physics-list
bash-2.05a# sendmail -bv physics-request@physics.aamu.edu
physics-request@physics.aamu.edu... deliverable: mailer local, user physics-request

The pertinent part of /etc/aliases is

# majordomo
majordomo:      "|/usr/local/majordomo-1.94.5/wrapper majordomo"
owner-majordomo:        root
majordomo-owner:        root

physics:        "|/usr/local/majordomo-1.94.5/wrapper resend -l physics physics-list"
physics-list:   :include:/usr/local/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/physics
physics-request:        "|/usr/local/majordomo-1.94.5/wrapper majordomo -l physics"
owner-physics:  marius
physics-owner:  marius


> Without seeing your aliases for the list, or the majordomo.cf file, it is
> difficult to know what could be happening with your list.  What do the majordomo and sendmail log files show when you try to send mail to your list?

majordomo.cf is vanilla. The only changes i made were

$whereami = "physics.aamu.edu";
$sendmail_command = "/usr/sbin/sendmail";


> Do your majordomo perl scripts have the location of your installation of perl in the first line?  This is usually #!/usr/bin/perl or #!/bin/perl or possibly even #!/usr/local/bin/perl

I edited the Makefile so perl is @

/usr/bin/perl

I checked, the path is correct. 

Marius
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Marius Schamschula, Ph.D. - Optical Physicist, Mac, and Network Coordinator
The Center for Applied Optical Sciences
The Center for Hydrology, Soil Climatology and Remote Sensing
Alabama A & M University, Department of Physics
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