I have been seeing very long delays in the outgoing-runner for several months now and have list members that constantly complain, rightly so, on how long messages take to deliver. It doesn't matter which mailing list and the persons affected may differ depending on the message (ie Billy bob may complain one message and Sally Mae may complain the next and Billy Bob won't). I have done the following:
1 - upgraded servers 2 - tried more memory 3 - upgraded mailman 4 - upgraded sendmail, 5 - adding more outgoing runners Nothing helps. Here are some additional symptoms and clues: 1 - Outgoing-runner NEVER quits on its own when I issue a "mailman stop". I always have to issue "mailman stop" twice to get it to stop 2 - The delay occurs for local deliveries. That is users with accounts on the machine that is running mailman see the delay 3 - Logs are of no help (the logs just timestamp like mailman is running real slow but gives no errors) 4 - No other outgoing mail (ie majordomo, bulk_mail, etc are affected) 5 - The delay doesn't always occur, or the delay is livable. 6 - Sendmail seems happy when you look at its logs. Sendmail seems to deliver promptly to the local users or to mailman when it gets the messages. My Setup Linux RH 9.0, using sendmail 8.13.0 & mailman 2.1.5 with python 2.2.2 After my signature is a received trail from a delayed message I personally got and I am user local to the mailman server. Notice the 7 hour delay? Spencer Yost Sundance Consulting Received: from heavyiron.atis.net (heavyiron.atis.net [127.0.0.1]) by heavyiron.atis.net (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0I6bri4012601; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:37:58 -0500 Received: from b0643.vr.mx.mail-abuse.com (b0643.vr.mx.mail-abuse.com [168.61.6.43]) by heavyiron.atis.net (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0I0H0M9027859 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:17:01 -0500 X-MAPS-MX: 0 1696.49466.3296.1106007376 Received: from out006.verizon.net (out006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.106]) by b0643.vr.mx.mail-abuse.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0I0GGDC071388 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:16:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from enduseradc1hxs ([4.60.122.220]) by out006.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:16:13 -0600 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Dee Schuyler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
