Re: [Mailman-Users] e-mails being kind of blackholed when sent to list or list-robot

2016-02-23 Thread Fernando Gont
On 02/20/2016 02:42 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 2/20/16 6:06 AM, Fernando Gont wrote: >> >> Meta answer: quite to my surprise, the problem was that mailman wasn't >> running. Apparently the reason was that, when the system was rebooted, >> mailman failed to start because there was no mailman@ list.

Re: [Mailman-Users] e-mails being kind of blackholed when sent to list or list-robot

2016-02-23 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 02/23/2016 12:53 PM, Fernando Gont wrote: > On 02/20/2016 02:42 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> Yes, it is needed. It is the sender of various notices including monthly >> password reminders an the recipient of bounces thereof. > > Why do yu actually need a *list* for sending such info? You don

Re: [Mailman-Users] e-mails being kind of blackholed when sent to list or list-robot

2016-02-20 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 2/20/16 6:06 AM, Fernando Gont wrote: > > Meta answer: quite to my surprise, the problem was that mailman wasn't > running. Apparently the reason was that, when the system was rebooted, > mailman failed to start because there was no mailman@ list. Once I > created it, the problem was solved. (i

Re: [Mailman-Users] e-mails being kind of blackholed when sent to list or list-robot

2016-02-20 Thread Fernando Gont
Hello, Mark, Thanks so much for your kind help. Meta answer: quite to my surprise, the problem was that mailman wasn't running. Apparently the reason was that, when the system was rebooted, mailman failed to start because there was no mailman@ list. Once I created it, the problem was solved. (is

Re: [Mailman-Users] e-mails being kind of blackholed when sent to list or list-robot

2016-02-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 02/16/2016 10:14 PM, Fernando Gont wrote: > Essentially, any emails that I send to the mail-robot aliases (e.g. > listname-requ...@mydomain.com) are kind of blackholed: I don't get a > response from mailman, but I also don't get any sort of "user unknown > message" either. > > Similarly, if I

[Mailman-Users] e-mails being kind of blackholed when sent to list or list-robot

2016-02-17 Thread Fernando Gont
Folks, I'm running a Ubuntu with Postfix and Mailman. Everything was up and running, and somehow mailman started to fail (we migrated the virtual machine to a different container, but I'd expect this to be orthogonal.. so.. not sure what happened). Essentially, any emails that I send to the mail-