[Mailman-Users] Can't send messages to list

[Lukasz Szybalski]

On 10/23/06, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
> Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>
> >One issue was a domain. I am not sure why it has worked before and one
> >day it stopped, but to continue on; i still have a problem.
> >
> >http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-May/044742.html
> >I did following test which showed me that when i use my
> >SMTPHOST='example.com' i would not connect, which explains the time
> >out.
>
>
> Which is why the default SMTPHOST is 'localhost'.
>
>
> >I have tested it by(would be nice to have this test included with
> >mailman as testmailman.py or something like that):
> >>su list
> >>python
> >>>> import smtplib
> >>>> SMTPHOST = 'localhost'
> >>>> SMTPPORT = 0
> >>>> x = smtplib.SMTP()
> >>>> x.connect(SMTPHOST, SMTPPORT)
> >(220, 'mycomp.example.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)')
> >>>> x.close
> ><bound method SMTP.close of <smtplib.SMTP instance at 0x4021a5ec>>
> >>>> x.close()
> >>>> SMTPHOST = 'example.com'
> >>>> x.connect(SMTPHOST, SMTPPORT)
> >(220, 'mycomp.example.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)')
> >>>> x.close()
> >>>> SMTPHOST = 'mycomp'
> >>>> x.connect(SMTPHOST, SMTPPORT)
> >(220, 'mycomp.example.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)')
> >>>> x.close()
> >
> >now it seemd to work for a second, it sent few mails but now:
> > cat /var/log/mail.log
> > says:
> >Oct 23 10:55:36 localhost postfix/smtpd[11974]: connect from
> >localhost[127.0.0.1]
> >Oct 23 10:55:36 localhost postfix/smtpd[11974]: 3F54C25C0C3:
> >client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
> >Oct 23 11:00:36 localhost postfix/smtpd[11974]: timeout after DATA
> >from localhost[127.0.0.1]
> >Oct 23 11:00:36 localhost postfix/smtpd[11974]: disconnect from
> >localhost[127.0.0.1]
> >Oct 23 11:00:36 localhost postfix/cleanup[11977]: 3F54C25C0C3:
> >message-id=<20061023155536.3F54C25C0C3 at mycomp.example.com>
> >
> >I changed the Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py as follows.
> >    def __connect(self):
> >        self.__conn = smtplib.SMTP()
> >        self.__conn.connect(mm_cfg.SMTPHOST, mm_cfg.SMTPPORT)
> >        self.__numsessions = mm_cfg.SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION
> >and add a line so it becomes
> >    def __connect(self):
> >        self.__conn = smtplib.SMTP()
> >        self.__conn.set_debuglevel(1)
> >        self.__conn.connect(mm_cfg.SMTPHOST, mm_cfg.SMTPPORT)
> >        self.__numsessions = mm_cfg.SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION
> >
> >cat /var/log/mailman/smtp-fail says:
> >  Low level smtp error: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor, msgid:
> ><804e5c70610201400r16756b9bm3ec9275c73984168 at mail.gmail.com>
> >Oct 23 11:00:36 2006 (1497) delivery to email at email.com failed with
> >code -1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
> >Oct 23 11:00:36 2006 (1497) delivery to email at email.com failed with
> >code -1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
> >Oct 23 11:00:36 2006 (1497) delivery to email at email.com failed with
> >code -1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
> >Oct 23 11:00:36 2006 (1497) delivery to email at email.com failed with
> >code -1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
> >Oct 23 11:00:36 2006 (1497) delivery to email at email.com failed with
> >code -1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
> >Oct 23 11:00:36 2006 (1497) delivery to email at email.com failed with
> >code -1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
> >Oct 23 11:00:36 2006 (1497) delivery to email at email.com failed with
> >code -1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
>
>
> The above patch puts additional debugging info in Mailman's 'error'
> log. If you aren't seeing this, see below.
>
>
> >qrunner says:
> >Oct 23 06:25:35 2006 (1491) Master watcher caught SIGHUP.  Re-opening
> >log files.Oct 23 06:25:35 2006 (1492) ArchRunner qrunner caught
> >SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
> >Oct 23 06:25:35 2006 (1493) BounceRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.
> >Reopening logs.Oct 23 06:25:35 2006 (1494) CommandRunner qrunner
> >caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
> >Oct 23 06:25:35 2006 (1495) IncomingRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.
> >Reopening logs.
> >Oct 23 06:25:35 2006 (1496) NewsRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
> >Oct 23 06:25:35 2006 (1497) OutgoingRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.
> >Reopening logs.
> >Oct 23 06:25:35 2006 (1498) VirginRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.
> >Reopening logs.Oct 23 06:25:35 2006 (1499) RetryRunner qrunner caught
> >SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
>
>
>
> This indicates you did 'bin/mailmanctl reopen' (or sent mailmanctl a
> SIGHUP). You need to do 'bin/mailmanctl reopen' (or send mailmanctl a
> SIGINT) in order to reload the patched SMTPDirect.py module.
>
>
> >What could be causing the problem?
> >
> >
> >---
> >Side note:
> >is file permission like this normal?
> >/var/lib/mailman/bin
> >py files are in group list
> >but pyo or pyc are in group root
> >
> >-rwxr-xr-x  1 root list  1499 2006-09-20 07:18 convert.py
> >-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1148 2006-10-18 10:44 convert.pyc
> >-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1148 2006-10-18 10:44 convert.pyo
> >-rwxr-xr-x  1 root list  3238 2006-09-20 07:18 discard
> >-rwxr-xr-x  1 root list  4399 2006-09-20 07:18 dumpdb
> >-rwxr-xr-x  1 root list  4951 2006-09-20 07:18 find_member
> >-rwxr-xr-x  1 root list  2633 2006-09-20 07:18 fix_url.py
> >-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2491 2006-10-18 10:44 fix_url.pyc
> >-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2491 2006-10-18 10:44 fix_url.pyo
> >------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> This is normal. The various discard, dumpdb, etc files are the command
> line scripts and are normally installed with the owner/group and
> permissions as above (assuming you ran the install as root).
> convert.py and fix_url.py are 'withlist' scripts designed to be
> imported by 'bin/withlist -r'. only the .py file is normally
> installed. The .pyc (and .pyo if any) files are created by Python when
> withlist imports the module. They will normally have the owner:group
> of whoever ran the withlist command that imported them.


Why do i get this error in smtp-failure?
Any ideas?

Oct 23 20:30:31 2006 (13510) delivery to email at email.com failed with
code -1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
Oct 23 20:30:31 2006 (13510) delivery to email at email.com failed with
code -1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
Oct 23 20:30:31 2006 (13510) Low level smtp error: [Errno 9] Bad file
descriptor, msgid:
<mailman.1.1161642951.1495.listname at lists.example.com>
Oct 23 20:33:30 2006 (13510) Low level smtp error: [Errno 9] Bad file
descriptor, msgid:
<mailman.1.1161643730.13036.lists at lists.example.com>

mail.info says:
Oct 23 20:25:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[13513]: connect from
localhost[127.0.0.1]
Oct 23 20:25:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[13513]: 0CA9A25C0C3:
client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
Oct 23 20:30:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[13513]: timeout after DATA
from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Oct 23 20:30:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[13513]: disconnect from
localhost[127.0.0.1]
Oct 23 20:30:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[13514]: 0CA9A25C0C3:
message-id=<20061024012531.0CA9A25C0C3 at mycomp.example.com>