Author: Stuart Grimshaw Date: To: Phil Pennock CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Mailman: problem with exim settings
OK, I'm getting there now, I've removed the aliases from the aliases file and
the test reports that the correct transport is being used. However I'm now
getting the following in my rejectlog:
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2001-08-09 00:33:03 refused relay (host) to <someone@???> from
<ism-admin@???> H=localhost (ism.smgsystems.co.uk) [127.0.0.1]
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On Thursday 09 August 2001 00:25 am, Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2001-08-08 at 23:36 +0100, Stuart Grimshaw wrote:
> > I know, which is why I was a little concerned to find them there. The
> > entries were created using the newlist command in the ~mailman/bin
> > directory... which gives this output:
>
> Last time I checked, newlist doesn't actually edit the aliases file. It
> provides the text, to be cut & pasted in, and strongly suggests that it
> should be used.
>
> Is there someone else with enough access to the mail-system, who
> might've followed the mailman instructions because they didn't realise
> that it didn't apply at your site?
>
> The comments are simply provided too, so that sites without an extremely
> strong documentation culture are still likely to have timestamps etc in
> wherever the aliases are kept, provided that the admin goes to the
> oh-so-extreme effort to include two extra lines in what they cut. ;^)
