From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 17 22:41:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA28986 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 22:41:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA28981 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 22:41:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA01479; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 22:31:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 22:31:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: jadeite cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: majordomo In-Reply-To: <199710172010.NAA11467@light.pomona.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, jadeite wrote: > Hi, > Our mailing list works when mail is sent to it from localhost. However, when mail is sent from a foreign host, sendmail says that "user insoc unknown" (insoc is the name of the list). What does this mean? > It means you haven't got it configured properly. I think majordomo is rather difficult, not only because there is a fair amount to do but also because half the documentation is wrong and out of date. The other half is okay, but the problem is in knowing which half is which. It especially sounds as if you haven't got aliases set up properly. Sendmail (or whatever you're using) doesn't know that insoc is an alias with which something should be done. There's a majordomo aliases file with examples; then you need to add that file name (aliases.majordomo) to sendmail's aliases so it know to use the file. See also the info on establishing new lists and info for list owners. It's messy, but eventually it does work. Annelise