From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 21:56:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9DFF37B5BE for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 21:56:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA00943; Mon, 07 Aug 2000 21:56:52 -0700 Message-ID: <398F9314.B0A4F2A3@urx.com> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 21:56:52 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tweten@nas.nasa.gov Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Majordomo Problems? References: <200008072257.PAA07520@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Tweten wrote: > > It appears that FreeBSD's Majordomo may be in worse shape than I feared when I > sent in my question about subscribing lists to FreeBSD lists, yesterday. > > Today, I tried to subscribe myself to two more lists, freebsd-announce, and > freebsd-mobile. Since I was only trying to subscribe this address, I used the > bare subscribe command. I got back a message for each from Majordomo, telling > me that I should expect another message containing the subscription > authorization magic string to send back -- but I didn't get the actual > messages containing the magic strings. > > Since both kinds of message should have been sent to exactly the same e-mail > address and one kind got through but the other didn't, I conclude that the > Majordomo subscription mechanism for at least these two lists is broken. > > Am I right? If so, what's happening to fix Majordomo (and when should I try > again)? If not, where did I go wrong? Thanks for any help. I would check your spelling because I just tried it and got both emails back in less than 15 seconds. The string I sent to majordomo@freebsd.org was subscribe freebsd-announce It worked. What can I say. You are probably missing something obvious. Try sending my string because it worked. Kent > -- > M/S 258-5 | 1024-bit PGP fingerprint: | tweten@nas.nasa.gov > NASA Ames Research Center | 41 B0 89 0A 8F 94 6C 59 | (650) 604-4416 > Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 | 7C 80 10 20 25 C7 2F E6 | FAX: (650) 604-4377 > We each earn what freedom of speech we defend for those who most offend us. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message