Hi Nargaret, It is a new server. The Listserv software owner is "external-listserv". I am the site admin. What I did: Install Solaris 9 and patch; Install Apache; Install sendmail 8.13.1; Install Listserv 1.8e; Create a new mailing list; Subscribe users--- then I got the problem. Actually, I can add users from GUI by root. But users can't subscribe to the listserv, even can't send commands "help" and "info". Thanks, Eric -----Original Message----- From: Margaret King [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 1:07 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [LSTOWN-L] Rejected posting to LISTSERV Wait a minute.... You have a list named "listserv"? And to write to the software itself, you write to "external-listserv"? Are there other lists on this same server that work correctly, or is this a new server that is just being set up? Are you the site admin? Margaret King Michigan State University Eric Luo wrote: > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: info > content: > info > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: L-Soft list server at Hummingbird Ltd. (1.8e) > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 12:20 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Rejected posting to [log in to unmask] > > > Your message is being returned to you unprocessed because it looks > like a > LISTSERV command, rather than material intended for distribution to the > members > of the LISTSERV list. Please note that LISTSERV commands must ALWAYS be sent > to > the LISTSERV address; if it was indeed a command you were attempting to > issue, > please send it again to [log in to unmask] for > execution. Otherwise, please accept our apologies and try to rewrite > the > message with a slightly different wording - for instance, change the first > word > of the message, enclose it in quotation marks, insert a line of dashes at > the > beginning of your message, etc. > >