At 7:39 AM -0500 1/7/06, Ira Rosenblum wrote: >Last week I wrote that none of the mail (using Mailman 2.1.6) being >sent to my list was reaching the list members, but I have since >discovered that about 25% of the members (that's a rough estimate) >are receiving mail, while the rest are not. It makes no sense to me. >The list has about 310 names on it, most of which were mass >subscribed by my cutting and pasting e-mail addresses (as text only; >I removed the hyperlinks from them first) from an excel spreadsheet. >Last week, Mark answered by asking: Have you checked Mailman's 'smtp' >and 'smtp-failure' logs? Also, the error log? >I don't have access to the logs. I've asked someone who does to >check, but I haven't heard from them yet. Meanwhile, does this make >any sense at all, that the mail is so sporadic? Has anyone else had >this problem, and if so, how did you resolve it?
Did you strip off the human-readable part of the addresses before you put them in the bulk subscription box? My hunch would be that you still have something more than a bare email address there, and some mail servers are snuffy about the format of the address. Gmail is one such. -- Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com "Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you Fret." -- Terry Pratchett ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
