Definitely it's venv. It might be that mailman-web.py is an artifact of an
earlier attempt with Ubuntu packages, since settings.py and mailman-web.py
are quite similar.
I do have the other config files you mention, all under /etc/mailman3/
Thanks for any further thoughts...
~ Greg
On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 3:47 AM Odhiambo Washington <odhia...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 8:15 AM Greg Newby via Mailman-users <
> mailman-users@mailman3.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for this, Odhiambo. Unfortunately it doesn't address my situation.
>> See below:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 3:21 AM Odhiambo Washington <odhia...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 10:43 PM Greg Newby via Mailman-users <
>> > mailman-users@mailman3.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi friends.
>> >>
>> >> I'm now getting a 500 server error upon signing up a new username on
>> the
>> >> web-based front end. The username is created in the back end, but the
>> >> verification email does not get sent.
>> >>
>> >> This is GNU Mailman 3.3.9 (Tom Sawyer), venv, Ubuntu 24.04LTS,
>> PostgreSQL,
>> >> Postfix
>> >>
>> >> Here are the corresponding logfile entries from mailmanweb.log:
>> >> smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused: {'redac...@gmail.com': (504, b'5.5.2
>> >> <mail>:
>> >> Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname')}
>> >>
>> >> and from mail.log:
>> >> Oct 14 12:06:26 domain postfix/smtpd[722764]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT
>> from
>> >> localhost[127.0.0.1]: 504 5.5.2 <mail>: Helo command rejected: need
>> >> fully-qualified hostname; from=<r...@lists.domain.tld>
>> to=<root@localhost
>> >> >
>> >> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>> ^^^^ Note the problem isn't the "From:" address. That is being correctly
>> configured from mailman-web.py and settings.py via the variables below.
>>
>> The problem is it's going "To:" root@localhost. I don't know why this is
>> happening - shouldn't it be going to redac...@gmail.com?
>>
>> Also, based on settings below shouldn't this be From:
>> postor...@lists.domain.tld
>> not From: r...@lists.domain.tld?
>>
>> More:
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> >> lists.domain.tld is the domain for Mailman3. I don't know why it's
>> trying
>> >> to send email from root@.
>> >>
>> >> I've seen places where 'localhost' appears in the Mailman settings
>> >> (settings.py, mailman.cfg, mailman-web.py), and tried changing them to
>> the
>> >> host's FQDN and restarting mailman3 and mailman3-web, but the problem
>> >> persists.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Find and fix these values to what they should be as explained.
>> >
>> > # The sender of emails from Django such as address confirmation
>> requests.
>> > # Set this to a valid email address.
>> > DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'john...@domain.name'
>> >
>> > # The sender of error messages from Django. Set this to a valid email
>> > # address.
>> > SERVER_EMAIL = 'john...@domain.name'
>> >
>> > I use listmas...@lists.domain.name in my servers.
>> >
>>
>> In the default files via the venv installation, these were already set
>> properly:
>>
>> EMAILNAME='lists.domain.tld' <-- I set this myself
>>
>> These were default in settings.py and mailman-web.py:
>> DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'postorius@{}'.format(EMAILNAME)
>> SERVER_EMAIL = 'root@{}'.format(EMAILNAME)
>>
>
> For the venv installation, I rarely hear a mention of mailman-web.py.
> I only know about settings.py, mailman,cfg and mailman-hyperkitty.cfg
> files in /etc/mailman3/
>
> Are you really using the venv install?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
> In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS.
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>
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