Sorry for carrying on a conversation with myself--but I wanted to give the details of
this situation, in case it might, indirectly, assist someone else. (I benefited by
looking through the archives, so someone else who has the same problem as me might as
well.) It turns out my problem was with cron. Unbeknownst to me it wasn't
functioning--at all, anywhere on the machine (I know it used to, but I had removed all
my crontab files). Anyway, I restarted cron (on my machine:
"/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S40crond stop" followed by "/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S40crond start") and now
it's working. So, thanks for listening, while I beat the problem out of the bushes.
Angelo
>Strike that! It does seem to be a cron problem, though I still don't know how to fix
>it. Once I gave the queue command:
>
>/usr/local/Python-2.0/python -S /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mailman/cron/qrunner
>
>all the messages got sent. But why isn't my mailman crontab file working, and why
>aren't the messages being sent immediately, instead of being queued?
>
>But I'm greatly relieved to have found the problem, or at least a way to fix it (with
>a different cron approach (e.g., using /etc/crontab) than the installed file??).
>Angelo
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>>Hi--I've got what seems to be a common problem: Everything seems to be working
>fine, but messages won't get sent--and there are no error messages (in mailman/logs
>or /var/log/maillog). I'm pretty sure the aliases, wrapper, etc. are all correct and
>in working order.
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>>There are files in mailman/qfiles. I checked to be sure crontab was installed.
>/var/log/maillog says the mail was sent. (BTW: is there anyway to manually send
>queued messages?)
>>
>>Here's my configuation
>>
>>Mailman 2.0.3
>>Python 2.0
>>Sendmail: 8.9
>>Redhat Linux 6.0
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>>(Note: I've gotten this same set of versions of software to work on a backup box I
>experiment with. I'm pretty convinced I have a sendmail problem, though I don't know
>what it could be. Sendmail is indeed functioning for _most_ of its other purposes.
>It works fine, e.g., in sending list creation and subscription notices.) Help!
>Angelo
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