Hi Sam,

I'm having some problems with mailing lists. Everytime I send a message to a mailing list it distributes a blank message to the members of the list. I use a system account called "virtual" which I embed the lists into.

virtual has a home of "/home/virtual/", the mailing list sta...@something.com is in "/home/virtual/staff/" I have a ".courier-staff" file in virtual's home dir. with the following contents: | /usr/lib/courier/bin/couriermlm msg /home/virtual/staff

aliasing to the virtual user is done in the aliases with the following entry: #LISTS sta...@icaap.org: virtual-staff staf...@icaap.org: virtual-staff-subscribe staf...@icaap.org: virtual-staff-unsubscribe staf...@icaap.org: virtual-staff-help staf...@icaap.org: virtual-owner

when I send a message the members of the list receive the following email:

Return-Path: <staff-bounce-40-andrewg=some...@something2.com> Received: from host2.something.com([131.232.10.2]) (1144 bytes) by host1.something.com via smtpd with P:esmtp/D:real-user/T:local (sender: <staff-bounce-40-andrewg=some...@something2.com>) id <m13Q...@host1.something.com> for <real...@host1.something.com>; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:35:57 -0600 (MDT) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #3 built 1998-Feb-24) Received: from atrus.cs.something.com([131.232.7.82]) (741 bytes) by host2.something.com via smtpd with P:esmtp/D:aliases/R:inet_paths/T:smtp (sender: <staff-bounce-40-andrewg=some...@something2.com>) id <m13Q...@host2.something.com> for <andr...@something.com>; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:34:54 -0600 (MDT) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #3 built 1998-Mar-11) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1013) by host3.something.com with local; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:34:50 -0600 Delivered-To: sta...@something2.com List-Subscribe: <mailto:staf...@something2.com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:staf...@something2.com> List-Post: <mailto:sta...@something2.com> List-Owner: <mailto:staf...@something2.com> List-Help: <mailto:staf...@something2.com> From: virtual <virt...@host3.something.com> Message-ID: <cour...@host3something.com> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:34:50 -0600 To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Status:

Thanks in advance, -Scott