Re: [Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source

2006-10-17 Thread BigglesZX
Ye gods, it was require_explicit_destination that sorted it. If only I'd not glossed over that part in the original reply/looked more thoroughly for that configuration directive :(. Very many thanks to yourself and Patrick for sticking with me during this! I suspect less patient guys would have ig

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
BigglesZX wrote: > >If I use a local mail account (using mutt) to send a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED], the message is passed through fine - goes out on >to the list. > >If, however, I send the message to the remote account checked by >fetchmail, then run fetchmail to retrieve the message, it does

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source

2006-10-14 Thread BigglesZX
Okay, straying from topic further here, but you've already been so helpful I'm hoping you might have a further solution to this :-). I took the plunge and removed the mailman Debian package, and installed from source. This has sorted the group mismatch problem from before; my problem is now possib

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source

2006-10-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
BigglesZX wrote: >Okay, the problem was with my MTA - Exim was not set up to play with >mailman, so after following the advice given in the Exim-mailman >readme, I have made some progress. The test messages sent previously >were being frozen by Exim because it was not correctly set up to >handle m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source

2006-10-13 Thread BigglesZX
Okay, the problem was with my MTA - Exim was not set up to play with mailman, so after following the advice given in the Exim-mailman readme, I have made some progress. The test messages sent previously were being frozen by Exim because it was not correctly set up to handle messages to mailman. Th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source

2006-10-13 Thread Mark Sapiro
BigglesZX wrote: >Ah, and here's the strange thing - if I send mail to the list address >(using [EMAIL PROTECTED]) from a local account, it doesn't get sent >out on the list either! No bounce messages are returned. What's in the local MTA log for this message? Do you have aliases or whatever the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source

2006-10-13 Thread BigglesZX
Ah, and here's the strange thing - if I send mail to the list address (using [EMAIL PROTECTED]) from a local account, it doesn't get sent out on the list either! No bounce messages are returned. On 13/10/06, BigglesZX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13/10/06, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source

2006-10-13 Thread BigglesZX
On 13/10/06, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is fetchmail doing with the messages it retrieves? Note that > possibly the most straightforward thing is to have fetchmail deliver > to a local mail directory (qfiles/maildir/ by default but can be > changed in mm_cfg.py by setting MAILDIR

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Patrick Bogen wrote: >On 10/12/06, BigglesZX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I've followed your advice and now have fetchmail retrieving mail from >> the remote account and forwarding it to the local mailing list >> address. Despite my setting the list to accept mail from >> non-subscribers etc,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source

2006-10-12 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 10/12/06, BigglesZX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Patrick, and thank you very much for your reply. > > I've followed your advice and now have fetchmail retrieving mail from > the remote account and forwarding it to the local mailing list > address. Despite my setting the list to accept mail fr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source

2006-10-12 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 10/12/06, BigglesZX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was told (by someone to whom the problem may or may not have been > succinctly explained) that Mailman could be my salvation, so here I am > - installed and ready to go. The main question being: can a Mailman > list be set up such that instead o

[Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source

2006-10-12 Thread BigglesZX
Hi all, I'm using Mailman 2.1.8 on Debian with exim4 (4.63). I am a first-time user of Mailman (at least from the administrative end); I am trying to use Mailman as a replacement for a mail distribution routine used previously in a project I am part of. The previous system involved two accounts,