This morning I checked the smtp log to see if I could find a match to my daily ping. I did find it today, 1 entry for 156 members. And I got 156 summarized bounces with 554 errors. :-/ I'm going to try renaming the list or creating a new one with the same members to see what happens...
John Mark Sapiro wrote: >>>>> Does the smtp log say it delivered the post to the appropriate number >>>>> of recipients? >>>> it's hard to say... there is no single entry for the problem list that has >>>> the >>>> correct number (446 less a few nomail). >>> >>> What are the recipient numbers in the entry(s) for the message-id of a >>> post? >> If VERP is on won't there only be 1 recipient/message-id, but multiple >> message-ids/post to Non-digest members? I also can't find a match to the >> received message IDs. It looks like digest is different, 2 entries totaling >> 262 >> "recips"... > > > The individual (non-digest) messages are all the same message with the > original message-id. The message may be delivered to the MTA by the > SMTPDirect.py module in multiple transactions or even (with VERP) in > transactions with a single recipient and a unique envelope sender, but > there is still only one smtp log entry written by Mailman with the > total number of recipients delivered to the MTA. > > The message-id in a message received from the list should be logged in > the smtp log. > > Two entries per digest with Mailman generated message-ids is correct. > one entry is for the plain format digest and one for the MIME format > digest. These are separate messages with distinct contents, thus two > messages. These may have been delivered to the MTA in multiple > transactions or VERPed, but there are still only one log entry for the > plain digest and one for the MIME digest. > > >> For now, I'm going to assume (ouch) that it's my provider's problem. Thanks >> for >> all for the patience and answers. If nothing else, I learned more about the >> workings of Mailman & qmail. :-D I may try shutting off the RFC headers >> on >> the lists and see if that changes anything... > > > There is some reason why this only affects one list. The question is > why does the smarthost see mail from this list differently? Does the > smarthost rate-limit you? I.e. does it reject all but the first 300 > recipients in an hour or something like that? > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org