From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> To: ceo@sartrack.nz Cc: mailman-users@mailman3.org Subject: [MM3-users] Mailman3 / Exim4: Router fails In-Reply-To: <168469116281.118014.2976538609194809676@mail.mailman3.org> References: <168469116281.118014.2976538609194809676@mail.mailman3.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 5b7378119a27 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-apple-darwin21.6.0) --text follows this line-- ceo@sartrack.nz writes:
But it fails with this: MM3_LISTCHK=/var/lib/mailman3/lists/${local_part}@${domain}
For reasons I do not understand, although Mailman 3 keeps list configurations in the RDBMS, when it creates a list it *also* "touches" a directory for that list in the directory $var_dir/lists. (If I remember correctly, these are empty. It's a real directory, not "virtual".) Since I already knew how to search for the lists/$LIST/config,pck file used by Mailman 2, I used the same method for Mailman 3.
$var_dir is set somewhere near the top of mailman.cfg. I don't know where to find that file in your installation, it's often in /etc/mailman3.
Compare $var_dir with MM3_LISTCHK. If the prefix /var/lib/mailman3 is not the same as $var_dir, check that the lists directory exists in $var_dir and is populated with the list posting addresses you expect. Then fix up MM3_LISTCHK to match.
If anything looks suspicious, feel free to ask, even if it works.
Later you wrote:
mailman3 create templist@sartrack.nz templist.lists.sartrack.nz (?) I tried to create it as: create templist@sartrack.nz templist@sartrack.nz but it would not accept that.
I believe that's because "mailman create" wants the posting address and the list ID. The posting address is a mailbox@domain address as usual, but the list ID is defined to be "dots only" so you can tell the difference. Normally the list ID just swaps "." for "@" in the posting address, but if you ever need to change domains, it saves your users hassle if their mail client understands the list ID. That can stay mailbox.domain even though you have to change the posting address to mailbox@newdomain. So
create templist@sartrack.nz templist.sartrack.nzshould work.
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