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Problems w/Mailman & Postfix

Greetings, fellow listers!

I've been struggling with getting Mailman to run on one of our boxes, and before posting my problem to the Mailman list, I thought I'd ask the OSXS crew to chew on the problem first, as I suspect it might be something funky about the Mailman-to-Postfix connectivity under OSXS. Without further ado:

* Power Mac G4 with 1.5GB RAM, two 120GB ATA drives running OSXS v.10.2.3 & BIND v.8.2.3 (secondary/slave DNS for our domain)
* Mailman v.2.1
* Python v.2.2
* Postfix v.1.1.11
* UW IMAP/POP v.?? (the latest as of December)
* Mail version 8.1 6/6/93
* SquirrelMail v.?? (the one that ships with OSXS v.10.2.3)

I followed the directions for installing both packages, and in the case of Mailman, I relied heavily on a slightly-outdated-but-usable, article posted at afp548.com. The URL at AF548.com is:

http://www.afp548.com/Articles/mail/postfix.html

In any case, it all seems to run fine, permissions seem okay, and everything, except that mail destined for subscribers never gets to them. For instance, if I subscribe to a list via the browser interface, it says a confirmation is on the way, but it never arrives. If I directly subscribe someone from the admin interface, it says they're good to go, but again, no confirmation e-mail ever gets to the subscriber. The messages don't bounce, but rather, they seem to disappear down a rat hole. I'm not sure which logs to examine, otherwise I'd have already done so. When I SSH into the box via a terminal, and look at the "pending.pck" file for the list in question, this is its contents:

(dp1
S'37af3753f88b828c26d1081411347d7f92b8954b'
p2
(S'S'
(iMailman.UserDesc
UserDesc
(dp3
S'fullname'
p4
VZaphod Beeblebrox
sS'password'
p5
S'monkey'
p6
sS'language'
p7
S'en'
p8
sS'digest'
p9
I0
sS'address'
p10
S'email@hidden'
sbtsS'6a045aac253743d4baa7439be3b16a8214665b3b'
p11
(S'S'
(iMailman.UserDesc
UserDesc
p12
(dp13
g7
S'en'
p14
sS'invitation'
p15
I1
sg10
S'email@hidden'
p16
sg4
V
sg5
S'biekdu'
sg9
I0
sbtp17
sS'evictions'
p18
(dp19
g2
F1043133905.280624
sg11
F1043135121.183454
sS'878995253c4b047a55f59f7fd1af9808ff658b98'
p20
F1043134115.092815
ssS'version'
p21
I1
sg20
(S'S'
(iMailman.UserDesc
UserDesc
(dp22
g7
g8
sg15
I1
sg10
S'email@hidden'
sg4
V
sg5
S'heagiw'
p23
sg9
I0
sbtp24
s.

From what I can see, it looks as though it's gathering the correct information from the Web GUI, then simply sitting on it. Any ideas of what I might have done wrong here?

If you all want to check it out for yourselves, the machine is at:

http://zaius.groupd.com/mailman/listinfo/

The list in question is "gdc-tests", the one with a description. The other list is one I created in the terminal by following the AFP548.com instructions, but it won't let me edit it in the GUI. > <sigh>

TIA for any guidance you can offer this poor sap!

Ted Dively
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