Re: [Mailman-Users] listmembers being "(ignored)", lockfile problems, 2.0b5

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:44:05 -0400 Brett Dikeman <brett@iclick.com> wrote:
At least have the good grace to wait a day or two. Not all of us read this list that quickly -- lately for instance I tend to read it only every couple days. I know others are in a similar circumstance and Barry has recently stated that he's buried in the Python 2.0 release and does not have much time to spend on the Mailman lists until that's done.
in logs/smtp-failure:
What do your MTA's logs say?
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Thanks to all who replied.
The problem was in fact the SMTP agent. We have, on this particular host, a "messy" mail server setup; actual inbound SMTP is handled by something called Trend Interscan(which actually works really well, shameless plug for them*.) Trend then does Some Magic(mainly, decompresses/decodes any attachments, checks for viruses, that sort of thing) and hands off messages to sendmail(or, say, postfix; you can set the command Trend uses, or give it a hostname/port, etc.)
Trend apparently got very upset when I removed some older definitions files(or I accidentally deleted something else it needed) and was doing strange things, like opening the connection but not responding, or closing it immediately, etc.
I mucked around with it unsuccessfully for a few hours, gave up, and just fired up plain old sendmail into daemon mode and left trend off. Worked great; we're not protected against a virus getting sent to the list at the moment, but at least things will work until I straighten out the mess with Trend support in the morning.)
qrunner did its job and shortly thereafter I received email from a bunch of users saying they now had a digest in their mailbox. Still not sure that everyone is working yet; have to check up with those who reported problems and see if they're 'alive' again.
No more strange log entries, except for some business about quattro-admin sending mail to the list, and a lot of messages to 1 recipient, which seemed like mailman zapping bounce messages to me, and naturally reporting it in the SMTP logs.
If problems crop up, you know I'll be back :-)
Brett *this thing saved our butts at work so many times it isn't funny. I strongly recommend antivirus solutions for lists and companies. Where I work, it's a literal challenge to find a floppy since they're practically never used, which means most infections come in over email. On our list, it's caught at least 20 viruses in a few months.
Brett Dikeman Systems Engineer CFN(formerly iClick, Inc) 914-872-8043 120 Bloomingdale Rd. 914-872-8100(fax) White Plains, NY 10605 http://www.iclick.com PGP Fingerprint: 06C2 5D5B D2B4 7626 BB24 2BBC 9E4A C8B3 PGP Key location: http://pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net/pgp/brett.pgp

Thanks to all who replied.
The problem was in fact the SMTP agent. We have, on this particular host, a "messy" mail server setup; actual inbound SMTP is handled by something called Trend Interscan(which actually works really well, shameless plug for them*.) Trend then does Some Magic(mainly, decompresses/decodes any attachments, checks for viruses, that sort of thing) and hands off messages to sendmail(or, say, postfix; you can set the command Trend uses, or give it a hostname/port, etc.)
Trend apparently got very upset when I removed some older definitions files(or I accidentally deleted something else it needed) and was doing strange things, like opening the connection but not responding, or closing it immediately, etc.
I mucked around with it unsuccessfully for a few hours, gave up, and just fired up plain old sendmail into daemon mode and left trend off. Worked great; we're not protected against a virus getting sent to the list at the moment, but at least things will work until I straighten out the mess with Trend support in the morning.)
qrunner did its job and shortly thereafter I received email from a bunch of users saying they now had a digest in their mailbox. Still not sure that everyone is working yet; have to check up with those who reported problems and see if they're 'alive' again.
No more strange log entries, except for some business about quattro-admin sending mail to the list, and a lot of messages to 1 recipient, which seemed like mailman zapping bounce messages to me, and naturally reporting it in the SMTP logs.
If problems crop up, you know I'll be back :-)
Brett *this thing saved our butts at work so many times it isn't funny. I strongly recommend antivirus solutions for lists and companies. Where I work, it's a literal challenge to find a floppy since they're practically never used, which means most infections come in over email. On our list, it's caught at least 20 viruses in a few months.
Brett Dikeman Systems Engineer CFN(formerly iClick, Inc) 914-872-8043 120 Bloomingdale Rd. 914-872-8100(fax) White Plains, NY 10605 http://www.iclick.com PGP Fingerprint: 06C2 5D5B D2B4 7626 BB24 2BBC 9E4A C8B3 PGP Key location: http://pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net/pgp/brett.pgp
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