Hi Tom. It turned out that I had unwittingly deleted from the hosts file the line 127.0.0.1 my_server.bbri.org localhost
Once I added that back, all the emails that were being held were processed correctly by crond and sendmail. But I had had multiple problems: before that I couldn't get the posts to appear or the subscription requests to show up until I reset some permissions to what they should be in the Mailman directories. So this was a two step process. I had also impetuously reinstalled Mailman as root accidently and that caused problems too until I re-installed it as mailman and then reset the owner/group correctly... Your clues were quite helpful; they got me on the right track. Thanks. Walter At 10:49 -0500 8/30/02, Tom Whiting wrote: >On Friday 30 August 2002 10:36 am, Walter Stafford wrote: >> Hi, >> After I changed the ip address of my linux box, mailman stopped >> working. (Our ISP assigned us a new IP number range). I have changed the >> hosts file and rerun the m4 sendmail.mc config script. But somewhere I have >> missed something. I created a new test list and tried to subscribe to it >> through the web interface but I get no response from it. There are a >> >> lot of files piling up in /home/mailman/qfiles >> >> None of the lists (I have 4) will forward messages or allow new >> subscriptions. Can anyone help?? >> >> Walter Stafford > >There's a few reasons that this could be happening (none relating to Mailman >that I know of) >A> Your DNS records haven't bounced back to you yet (in some cases this can >take up to 3d to filter through the 'net). >Personally, I use EveryDNS, with a perl monitor every hour or so. They manage >to get the ip back and registered usually in < an hour and in some cases MUCH >less. > >B> Your OLD I.P. address is hardcoded into your MTA somewhere (I believe PARTS >of qmail do this (depending on your distro)). > >C> You somehow have your old I.P. address set in your O.S. some other way. >___________________________________ >TJW: Head tech, Dreamless Realms >Mud: http://dreamless.wolfstream.net >Snippets http://dreamless.wolfstream.net/ >Telnet dreamless.wolfstream.net:9275 >The OLC Pages http://olc.wolfstream.net >___________________________________ -- ------------------------------------------------------ Walter Stafford Director of Computer Services Boston Biomedical Research Institute 64 Grove Street Watertown, MA 02472 USA Main: 617-658-7700 Direct: 617-658-7808 Fax: 617-972-1753 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bbri.org/ --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ 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/