[Wylug-help] Mailman port RH7.3/2.0.13 to FC4/2.1.5/Exim4

[Gary Stainburn]

Thanks Nigel

I'd read that in amongst the plethora of other sources of info and had 
obviously missed the significance.

Everything is now working fine.

Gary

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 15:03, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 14:04 +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > [root at stan1 ~]# service mailman start
> > Starting mailman: Site list is missing: mailman
> >                                                            [FAILED]
>
> I guess thats your site list missing :-)
>   http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node40.html
>
> > 2) sending emails doesn't work. I've configured exim4 as described
> > (fixing the path problem to the config.pck). I've included the bits I've
> > added as well as the extract from /var/log/exim/main.log that shows the
> > incoming email being processed.  There are no other log entries however,
> > not in messages, main.log, or mailman/error.
>
> That could be down to the lack of a site list.
>
> However when I did this last year for the exim/wylug lists I found that
> there was a database format inconsistency between 2.0.x and 2.1.5 -
> somewhere in the 2.1.x series an incompatible change had been made which
> broke things.  A solution might have been to have upgraded to 2.1.0 and
> subsequently up from there.... I blew away the lists and recreated them
> instead.
>
> There may be another solution, but it did not immediately show up nor
> did any one have a solution on the mailman lists.
>
> The exim4 / Mailman 2.1 HOWTO at
> http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html should be accurate...
>
> 	Nigel.

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