Email to Mailman list was rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table

Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by muhamad, May 27, 2014.

  1. muhamad

    muhamad New Member

    I have a question concerning Mailman apps that was installed following the Debian 7.0 Perfect Server tutorial.

    Information about my server:
    Debian 7.0 with Dotdeb, installed based on steps in “Perfect Server” howtoforge.com
    The server include postfix, Dovecot, nginx, Mailman
    ISPConfig upgraded to version 3.0.5.4p1

    My problem:
    I sent email to a mailing list address, say [email protected], but the server give this error message:

    550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table

    What I did to prepare the mailing list:
    - Installed Mailman
    - ISPConfig3: Email > Domain > Add new Domain (create mydomain.org for email domain)
    - ISPConfig3: Sites > click mydomain.org: Add nginx Directives at the Options tab to allow web-access to mailman
    - Created first mailing list called “mailman”, and at the same time created mailman admin password
    - ISPConfig3: Email > Mailing List > Add new record (create listname mailing list)
    - Open web http://mydomain.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/listname, login, add Membership

    Could anybody explain what should I do to fix this problem?

    Regards,
    Muhamad

    ps. I have checked the contents of the files in /var/lib/mailman/data directory:
    aliases contains “STANZA” for mailman (mailman-admin, mailman-bounces, etc.) and for listname
    transport-mailman contains STANZA for listname ([email protected] local, etc.)
    virtual-mailman contains STANZA for listname. Some lines in the file:

    [email protected] listname
    [email protected] listname-admin
    [email protected] listname-bounces
    [email protected] listname-confirm
    [email protected] listname-join
    [email protected] listname-leave
    [email protected] listname-owner
    [email protected] listname-request
    [email protected] listname-subscribe
    [email protected] listname-unsubscribe
     
  2. muhamad

    muhamad New Member

    I checked /var/log/syslog:

    May 27 04:38:01 mail postfix/smtpd[24807]: warning: database /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman.db is older than source file /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
    May 27 04:38:02 mail postfix/smtpd[24807]: connect from mail-vc0-f169.google.com[209.85.220.169]
    May 27 04:38:03 mail postfix/smtpd[24807]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-vc0-f169.google.com[209.85.220.169]: 550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table; from=<[email protected]> to=<[email protected]> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail-vc0-f169.google.com>

    Because it says that "virtual-mailman.db is older than source file", I did the following:
    cd /var/lib/mailman/data
    postmap virtual-mailman

    After that, I sent test email to the same list, and I got the following error message:

    <[email protected]> (expanded from <[email protected]>): user unknown

    Final-Recipient: rfc822; [email protected]
    Original-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
    Action: failed
    Status: 5.1.1
    Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; user unknown
     

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