MailMan Migration Problem

[webr00t]

I just migrated a client site from a dedicated Plesk server to an account on my WHM/cPanel server. I'll spare you the gory details, except the one remaining chunk of gore: some minor problems with the client's mailman list.

In migrating the list, I set up a new mailing list via cPanel's "Mailing Lists" feature. I gave it an identical name and let it establish. Of course, cPanel's Mailman modifications forced the list directory and other references to be renamed original_listname_domain.com (where it had previously just been original_listname).

Next, I simply copied the configuration files (config.pck) from the client's server to the /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists/original_listname_domain.com directory on my server.

This seems to have re-established all configurations settings properly. But now when I try to subscribe an address to my client's mailing list, I get a confirmation email with a link such as:

http://lists.domain.com/mailman/con....com/ffa2444ac2cdaee10b4f746688edd9c8e18524cf

If I use that link, Mailman responds:

Bad confirmation string
No such list original_listname_domain.com

if I remove _domain.com from that string, I get:

Bad confirmation string
Invalid confirmation string: ffa2444ac2cdaee10b4f746688edd9c8e18524cf.
Note that confirmation strings expire approximately 3 days after the initial subscription request. If your confirmation has expired, please try to re-submit your subscription. Otherwise, re-enter your confirmation string.

Meanwhile, if I follow the alternative confirmation instructions in the email, and I send an email to the confirmation address with the confirm

[/I] line in it, I get a "mailformed address" response from the MAIL SERVER, indicating that [email][email protected][/email] doesn't exist (as an email address, nevermind as a mailman list). Of course, that address does not exist in my cPanel email addresses or forwarders list, but it should have been created in exim, I believe, when I created the list.

Anyway, I'm hoping others have figured out solutions to these problems. I know the normal Mailman support community is less than eager to help with problems related to cPanel's modifications of Mailman.

Thanks in advance!

 

[cPanelDavidG]

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[webr00t]

Oh, man

I wish I knew about that weeks ago. Sounds like you guys could have saved me lots of hassle.

I did figure out these problems, and seemingly all others related to the migration, as well. Pretty proud of myself

This actually turned out to be something freakish. After I switched nameservers at my client's registrar, domain.com was resolving to my server, but lists.domain.com was still pointing to his for about a day. Meanwhile, I assumed that cPanel mailman installer had created a lists. subdomain, but it was his list config that was pointing confirm links to that address. So, unbeknownst to me, for a whole day I was trying to confirm subscriptions to a list called listname_domain.com on a Plesk server that had no use for _domain.com and thus did not recognize it!

The email problem is stranger still, but easier to explain. The confirmation email includes this line:

Or include the following line -- and only the following line -- in a
message to [email protected]:

My Mozilla Thunderbird client inexplicably tries to include the trailing : in the outgoing email address, but of course it's nearly invisible in the SMTP error message calling it mailformed. I found that one before I lost too much hair, though.