On 11/10/2005 10:19, Laura Kraly wrote: > My question is regarding a Private List where only List Owners can > subscribe users and only subscribers can post to the List. > > If a non-subscriber tries to subscribe or to post to the List they get a > message back saying what the error is and who to contact if they have > questions. Now, in the message it says to contact the List Owner at > [log in to unmask] (filled in with my “Listname” dash “the > word ‘Request’” @ myhost.com). My problem is that this e-mail address is > not valid and if I try to send to that address I get back an undeliverable > message. Apparently, the system administrator (LISTSERV postmaster) did not create the listname-request alias for the mail server software on the LISTSERV server when he/she created the list. You need to notify the system administrator of this problem. Only he/she can resolve this problem. > I tried to change the configuration file so that errors go to my e-mail > address specifically (‘Errors-to= [log in to unmask]’as opposed > to ‘Errors-to= Owner’), but that doesn’t make a difference. I know that I > could manually change the templates where it currently reads “&OWNERS” but > I don’t want to have to do for each List. This change had no effect on the problem you described, because the root cause is not the list configuration; the root cause is the missing alias for the mail server software. Messages for listname-request are not being delivered to LISTSERV for distribution to the list owner, because the mail server software has not been told that messages for listname-request should be delivered to LISTSERV. > Does anyone know if there is a setting where I can specify an e-mail > address for the [log in to unmask] so that it will be valid? As noted above, you need to notify the LISTSERV postmaster of this problem. Only he/she can resolve this problem. -- Paul Russell Senior Systems Administrator OIT Messaging Services Team University of Notre Dame