[Exim] Mailman and bounces with exim.

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Author: David Broome
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] Mailman and bounces with exim.
Hello - this is a mailman question but I hope this is a good place to ask
it as their are many users here.

The issue concerns bounces. I have mailman 2.0.8 installed and working
apart from bounces on all messages but the initial 'welcome' message.

The welcome message headers are:

From: mmadmin-request@???
To: davidb@???
Subject: Welcome to the "Mmadmin" mailing list
Envelope-To: davidb@???
Received: from www-data by finearts.uvic.ca with local (Exim) id
16NTPy-0006mm-00 for <davidb@???>; Sun, 06 Jan 2002 22:37:58
-0800
Sender: mmadmin-admin@???
Errors-To: mmadmin-admin@???
X-Beenthere: mmadmin@???
X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8
Message-Id: <E16NTPy-0006mm-00@???>

but 'real' list messages have: Sender: SmartList <list@???>
(all other values are the same)

So - why is the Errors-To: field not being used?

The mailman additions as outlined in the RTF @ exim.org are inplace and
everything else works.

The Mailman_UID value is the UID of the list user who also has rights to
the ~mailman/mail/wrapper program with SUID permission (as usual).

To aid here is a diagnostic and the log file entries:

finearts:#exim -d 9 -bt mmadmin@???
Exim version 3.12 debug level 9 uid=0 gid=0
probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode)
finearts.uvic.ca in local_domains? yes (matched finearts.uvic.ca)
Configured local interface address is 142.104.26.1
Caller is an admin user
Caller is a trusted user
user name "root" extracted from gecos field "root"
sender address = root@???
Address testing: uid=0 gid=0 euid=8 egid=8
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Testing mmadmin@???
finearts.uvic.ca in local_domains? yes (matched finearts.uvic.ca)
finearts.uvic.ca in percent_hack_domains? no (end of list)
address mmadmin@???
local_part=mmadmin domain=finearts.uvic.ca
domain is local
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

directing mmadmin@???
list_owner_director director skipped: suffix mismatch
owner_list_director director skipped: prefix mismatch
list_admin_director director skipped: suffix mismatch
list_request_director director skipped: suffix mismatch
calling list_director director
require_files = /var/lib/mailman/lists/mmadmin/config.db
test existence of /var/lib/mailman/lists/mmadmin/config.db
required present, EACCES => unknown
Success
list_director director called for mmadmin@???
queued for list_transport transport: local_part=mmadmin
domain=finearts.uvic.ca
list_director director succeeded for mmadmin
mmadmin@???
deliver to mmadmin in domain finearts.uvic.ca
director = list_director, transport = list_transport
search_tidyup called


2002-01-22 22:08:17 16TGZz-0000BM-00 <= davidb@???
H=h24-80-200-43.gv.shawcable.net (localhost) [24.80.200.43] P=esmtp S=8949
id=93027DF2-0FC7-11D6-BBA3-0050E4CE4875@???
2002-01-22 22:08:17 16TGZz-0000BM-00 => mmadmin <mmadmin@???>
D=list_director T=list_transport
2002-01-22 22:08:17 16TGZz-0000BM-00 Completed

2002-01-22 22:09:06 16TGao-0000DY-00 <= list@??? U=list
P=local S=9897 id=93027DF2-0FC7-11D6-BBA3-0050E4CE4875@???

2002-01-22 22:09:33 16TGbF-0000Eh-00 => dbroome <list@???>
D=localuser T=local_delivery

The mailman logs include the record of the first bounce (from the list
welcome message to bulk subscribed bad accounts), and posts ie:

Jan 22 20:29:03 2002 (20134) post to mmadmin from
mmadmin-admin@???, size=8364, success

Thanks in advance,
--
David Broome   Programmer-Analyst.FineArts.UVic.CA  /BSc /CNA /MCP
250.721-6307   dbroome@???                FIA 221