> > Make sure to take a look in the FAQ wizard -- there's lots of good > troubleshooting tips in there. In fact, I recommend that you search on > the word "troubleshooting", among other things. >
Thanks Brad for the recommendation. I am still running into trouble. I host about 200 mail lists and one mail list in particular is no longer sending out posts. It is able to process subscribe and unsubscribe requests via email just fine. The name of the list is ‘announce’ I have entries for the list in my virtusertable file and I have entries in the aliases.mailman file. The list name ‘announce2’ with a fairly basic configuration works fine was also entered in the aliases.mailman and virtusertable. Posts to ‘announce2’ are sent just fine. I searched through the mailman FAQ and found “3.14. Troubleshooting: No mail going out to lists members” And below is the output and status from the Mailman-2.1.9_1 from FreeBSD /usr/ports FreeBSD-4.11 Sendmail-8.13.8 Python-2.4.3 The mailman FAQ troubleshooting steps were not helpful for providing clues and/or correcting my current problem. I am wondering if there are other recommendations that I should consider. Here is the relevant output and troubleshooting steps I have taken so far: 0) check perms # ~mailman/bin/check_perms -f No problems found # 1) check if mailmanctl is running # ps auxww| grep mailmanctl |grep -v grep mailman 97350 0.0 0.3 7628 6272 ?? Is 1:03AM 0:00.03 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s -q start 2) check aliases and virtusertable for list entries # !grep grep announce aliases* aliases.mailman:announce: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post announce" aliases.mailman:announce-admin: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin announce" aliases.mailman:announce-bounces: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces announce" aliases.mailman:announce-confirm: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm announce" aliases.mailman:announce-join: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join announce" aliases.mailman:announce-leave: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave announce" aliases.mailman:announce-owner: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner announce" aliases.mailman:announce-request: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request announce" aliases.mailman:announce-subscribe: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe announce" aliases.mailman:announce-unsubscribe: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe announce" Binary file aliases.mailman.db matches # newaliases /etc/mail/aliases.mailman: 390 aliases, longest 69 bytes, 26928 bytes total /etc/mail/aliases.hosting: 3 aliases, longest 47 bytes, 137 bytes total /etc/mail/aliases: 914 aliases, longest 51 bytes, 13353 bytes total /etc/mail/aliases.rt: 13 aliases, longest 110 bytes, 1450 bytes total # grep announce virtusertable [EMAIL PROTECTED] announce [EMAIL PROTECTED] announce-admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] announce-bounces [EMAIL PROTECTED] announce-confirm [EMAIL PROTECTED] announce-join [EMAIL PROTECTED] announce-leave [EMAIL PROTECTED] announce-owner [EMAIL PROTECTED] announce-request [EMAIL PROTECTED] announce-subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] announce-unsubscribe # make # make all # make restart /bin/kill -HUP `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid` 3) check Smrsh not running smrsh # pwd /etc/mail # grep "smrsh" sendmail.cf 4) Interface Added SMTPHOST = '<ip of my mailserver>' to ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py Also from ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py SENDMAIL_CMD = '/usr/sbin/sendmail' 5) check qrunner they are running fine. All other lists are deliverying mail. # ps -auxww | grep qrunner mailman 45370 0.0 0.3 7584 6232 ?? I 9:57AM 0:00.25 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=RetryRunner:0:1 -s mailman 45369 0.1 0.4 8724 7396 ?? S 9:57AM 0:00.43 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=VirginRunner:0:1 -s mailman 45368 0.0 0.4 8712 7340 ?? S 9:57AM 0:00.50 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=OutgoingRunner:0:1 -s mailman 45367 0.0 0.3 7600 6276 ?? S 9:57AM 0:00.32 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=NewsRunner:0:1 -s mailman 45366 0.0 0.4 8716 7388 ?? S 9:57AM 0:00.47 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=IncomingRunner:0:1 -s mailman 45365 0.0 0.3 7588 6236 ?? S 9:57AM 0:00.33 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=CommandRunner:0:1 -s mailman 45364 0.0 0.3 8656 7220 ?? S 9:57AM 0:00.85 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=BounceRunner:0:1 -s mailman 45363 0.0 0.3 7588 6236 ?? S 9:57AM 0:00.34 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=ArchRunner:0:1 -s root 47159 0.0 0.0 308 168 p0 R+ 10:01AM 0:00.00 grep qrunner 6) locks. # ls -l ~mailman/locks total 4 -rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 65 Dec 28 15:57 master-qrunner -rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 65 Dec 28 15:57 master-qrunner.host.name.com.45362 # ps auxww | grep 45362 | grep -v grep mailman 45362 0.0 0.3 7624 6288 ?? Is 9:57AM 0:00.02 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s -q start 7) Logs. The incoming post email to announce arrives and sendmail dumps a line or two to /var/log/sendmail to acknowledge receipt of the email. There are no relevant entries showing up in: /usr/local/mailman/logs/error /usr/local/mailman/logs/post /usr/local/mailman/logs/vette /usr/local/mailman/logs/smtp /usr/local/mailman/logs/smtp-failure there is no file called /usr/local/mailman/logs/config 8) Qfiles. Not able to find any “clogged” messages in ~mailman/qfiles – will keep on checking. 9) SMTPHOST Did this already added an SMTPHOST = '<ip of my mailserver>' line to the ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file 10) Sendmail + mm-handler When testing sendmail manually from the shell on the local machine. I still see the relevant log lines from sendmail in /var/log/maillog showing the email was received and piped to mailman but nothing ends up in the mailman mail logs. I checked: /usr/local/mailman/logs/error /usr/local/mailman/logs/post /usr/local/mailman/logs/vette /usr/local/mailman/logs/smtp /usr/local/mailman/logs/smtp-failure there is no file called /usr/local/mailman/logs/config ------------------------------------------------------ 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