What address do you consider the administrator address?

I look and and see 6 messages posted from you to imbr-misc and 1 from you to imbr-announce.  One of the 6 messages to imbr-misc used a different address than the others.

All of the 5 out of the 6 total messages were sent from your administrator address.  All of those were received by the mailing list and then re-sent out to the subscribers (yourself included) and also saved in the mailing list archive.  You can view the messages in the mailing list archive.

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/imbr-misc/

The messages appeared in the archive.  They were received.  They were re-sent to the subscribers.  You are subscribed.  The messages will be sent to you.

Additionally the listhelper anti-spam is NOT filtering messages from either unmoderated subscribers such as yourself nor from whitelisted addresses.  Since your address is subscribed and unmoderated then Mailman will receive and re-send messages WITHOUT anti-spam filtering.  The listhelper anti-spam is not involved in the process in that case.

The purpose of the "administrator email" (and "moderator email") fields is to receive automated administrative messages from mailman. If you want to receive messages sent to the list, you need to subscribe the address to the list.

This is a feature, because many (many) lists have an administrator who is not actually involved with the project, just with mail(man). We would not want to receive every msg sent to the list. --best, karl.

> host eggs.gnu.org [209.51.188.92]: 550 Previous (cached) callout verification failure

That is from eggs the incoming relay machine for all inbound mail to .gnu.org and .fsf.org.  Only the FSF admins have access to that system.  This will need one of them to look at the problem and determine why your mail is getting this error.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_verification

Me thinks that maybe your source system is failing the callback verification that is apparently (due to that error message) happening on eggs.

I suggest opening a ticket with FSF sysadmin by sending an email message with details of this problem to sysadmin AT gnu.org as this is outside the access of the Savannah team.

Alex - one test message to imbr-misc is in the queue now at https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/admindb/imbr-misc. I suggest discarding it or approving it, as you like.

There is nothing special about the administrator address as far as posting goes.

If you post real messages, not test messages, I strongly suspect they will not be discarded. I saw at least one other test message come through, and thought you had discarded it. I don't know.

Only remove listhelper if you want to delete all the inevitable spam yourself, by hand.

best,
karl

Hello.

I created two lists: -email is unavailable- and -email is unavailable- and subscribed the administrator to these lists. Also I subscribed one user to these lists.

Then I tried to check functioning correctness of imbr-announce@nongnu.org:
1) I found posts from the user at the pending moderator requests web page. It was OK.
2) I tried several times to post a message from the administrator e-mail address to the list but I was not able to find the posts neither at the pending moderator requests web page nor in the list. It was FAILURE.
3) I deleted the list and recreated it, after that the user was not able to post messages to the list because of mail delivery failure, so I deleted the list again. It was FAILURE.

Then I tried to check functioning correctness of imbr-misc@nongnu.org:
1) I found posts from the user at the pending moderator requests web page. It was OK.
2) I tried several times to post a message from the administrator e-mail address to the list but I was not able to find the posts neither at the pending moderator requests web page nor in the list. It was FAILURE.

So it seems that I have missed to do something essential to have the ability to post messages to the lists from the administrator e-mail address.

Please explain what I should do to post messages to lists from the administrator e-mail address.


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Alexei