Since that time, we have had continual problems with our mailman installation.
Our installation is pretty vanilla, and it handles about 30+ lists with some lists having low membership and others having hundreds of addresses.
Anyhow, on the FC1 machine, everything ran fine since we rolled that in to production back in January of this year, and previously, under RedHat 9, things ran seamlessly as well.
Since we have upgraded to Fedora Core 2, we're getting some odd problems that are just frustrating the living daylights out of me.
The problem shows itself when we get a report of no activity on any of the lists. Quick investigation shows that /var/mailman/qfiles/out is full of pending messages. Unsure as to why they are pending, we quickly restart the mailman daemon. Unfortunately, two of the processes don't die ("mailmanctl -s start" and "OutgoingRunner"), so they have to be killed manually. Bringing mailman back on-line begins the processing again, but I am not certain that it is even processing correctly.
On our test list, it does seem to send to *some* of the test users, but not all.
The smtp-error log periodically shows a gazillion "Low level SMTP error: (111, 'Connection refused')" messages followed by a gazillion "Low level smtp error: please run connect()first" and finally a gazillion "delivery to <emailaddress> failed with code -1: please run connect() first"
I've gone through and insured that my mm_cfg.py contained all of the right information, and I have even gone through the effort to compile it up (not sure if this is even necessary, but I am running out of ideas) via : python -c "import compileall; compileall.compile_dir('/var/mailman/Mailman', ddir='/var/mailman/Mailman')"
The mail server is working fine for all other types of delivery (confirmed easily). I'm at a complete loss at this point.. Is there any way to turn up the debugging information to see what host it is getting the "Connection refused" message from?
Also, I'm monitoring the qfiles/out directory.. I've been watching it for about a half hour and have watched the directory's contents continually grow after a fresh restart of mailman. It just doesn't seem to send. :(
Argh! Totally frustrating as we never had any problems with mailman before.. Any help, ideas, comments, etc, would be wonderful!!
-Rich
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