In what order does Mailman process subscribers when it is transmitting to the list? The order in which they are subscribed? Alphabetical by email address? Random?
On Oct 26, 2006, at 2:55 PM, D. Alan Stewart wrote: > I am having a baffling problem with Mailman. Suddenly the list that I > am administrating has stopped delivering mail to a subset of the > subscribers. It's not readily apparent what those that are not > receiving the mails have in common - the domains that I know of > include mac.com, yahoo.com, av8inc.com. It also seems that anyone new > added to the list does not receive emails, though they do receive the > initial subscripion notice and the monthly reminders. I have seen > once that someone newly subscribed received one posting and has not > received another since. > > This list is provided to me by my web hosting provider, who is also > baffled. The Mailman installation is version 2.1.5. The sendmail logs > show successful transmissions to the users in question, at the > correct time, so it appears Mailman is sending something, but the > receiving end must be discarding it. I'm one of those not receiving > the emails. I've contacted my mail provider, mac.com, but they want a > copy of the email being sent with complete headers. Since any new > subscribers I've added aren't getting emails I'm having trouble doing > this. > > We set up a test list. I've found that the test list works if I > subscribe only myself. However, if I mass subscribe all the > subscribers of the malfunctioning list to the test list, it appears > to behave in the same manner as the malfunctioning list. That seems > to imply that it is either the number of subscribers or that one bad > entry in the list is creating the problem. It can't be the number of > subscribers, there are other, bigger Mailman lists on this same host > that seem to be working correctly. There are less than 100 > subscribers to my list. In examining the list that I am subscribing I > can find no entries that appear malformed. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > TIA. > Alan > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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/ > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/ > d.alan.stewart%40mac.com > > Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py? > req=show&file=faq01.027.htp ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ 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
