KB Parallels: I tried to create a mailing list for the first time and got the following error: "Unable to execute listmng utilliti: Listmng: Error: cannot create new list: Is Mailman configured properly?".

Symptoms

You get the error on Plesk CP during new mailing list creartion:

ERROR: PleskFatalException
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Unable to execute listmng utillity: listmng: Error: cannot create new list: is
Mailman configured properly?

or the following error during mailman startup:

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start
Site list is missing: mailman

Resolution

- First of all try to reconfigure Mailman with Plesk. To do it, remove main Mailman list:

# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/rmlist mailman

Then go to "Server->Set Up Mailman" and input requested information.

- If it does not help check that MAILMAN_ROOT_D/Mailman/mm_cfg.py and MAILMAN_ROOT_D/Mailman/Defaults.py do not contain the record like MTA = 'Postfix'.

Plesk uses Qmail MTA but Mailman has no built in Qmail support, so you should comment that line and leave MTA = 'Manual' in MAILMAN_ROOT_D/Mailman/Defaults.py then restart Mailman.

MAILMAN_ROOT_D folder vary depending on operating system and can be known from /etc/psa/psa.conf file.

Parallels

I tried to create a mailing list for the first time and got the following error: "Unable to execute listmng utilliti: Listmng: Error: cannot create new list: Is Mailman configured properly?".

Symptoms

Resolution

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