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If running under Unix, did you create the Sendmail aliases for listserv and owner-listserv as outlined in the Installation Guide?

April 26, 2017Aliases create guide installation listserv outlined running sendmail Unix

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If running under Unix, did you create the Sendmail aliases for listserv and owner-listserv as outlined in the Installation Guide?

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If you are running the NT or Windows 95 version and your bounces look like this: Connected to listserv.myhost.com: >>> RCPT To: <== note the unqualified hostname <<< 550 Recipient not local. 550 listserv@listserv.myhost.com... User unknown 550 error... User unknown then the sendmail on your local mail host isnt fully-qualifying addresses on outgoing mail within the local domain. You may be able to work around this by adding the unqualified name of the host (in this case LISTSERV) to the MYDOMAIN= variable in SITE.CFG. In other words, MYDOMAIN= should look something like this: MYDOMAIN= LISTSERV.MYHOST.COM LISTSERV After you make this change, stop and restart both LISTSERV and the SMTPL.EXE "listener". The Windows versions running with the SMTPL.EXE "listener" are quite picky about their own addresses. Since the listener has no way to resolve the unqualified host name, unless you explicitly specify it in the site configuration file, the listener will reject it as not