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November 2006

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Re: [Mailman-Users] undelivered mail, but only to some
by D. Alan Stewart Nov. 1, 2006

Nov. 1, 2006

Responding to Mark Sapiro: > If the sendmail log says the post is sent to the user in question, > Mailman delivered it to sendmail for the user, and it's not Mailman's > problem. I agree, it's not clear whether this is a sendmail or a Mailman problem. However, I have never, AFAIK, failed to receive an email from my provider's domain, unless that email originated from this specific Mailman list. That seems suspicious, doesn't it? Of course, I may be missing other emails that I am not aware of. Not getting something you did not know to expect is not an easy problem to trap. Since I now know that I am not receiving all emails from this list, possibly the problem is common but not often detected because the severity varies, list by list. > Mailman's 'smtp' log. This will tell you how many recipients the post > was sent to. My provider has checked Mailman's smtp log. It shows emails were sent to all subscribers. > Also check if the list is personalized. You may not even have > personalization options on your Non-digest options page which means > that OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION is not set to Yes in mm_cfg.py > and delivery is almost certainly not personailzed. I'm not certain, but I think this answers your question: the list does have digest options available to the users. > Check the settings of VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL and SMTP_MAX_RCPTS if any > in mm_cfg.py I looked, there are no settings for these in Mailman/mm_cfg.py. There don't appear to be any site-specific settings here. > You should also see this in the sendmail log, i.e. that the mail was > delivered to sendmail in one transaction. The provider has given me sendmail logs that I have analyzed. I was able to identify entries in the sendmail log that correspond with mailing list transmissions that were not received by the subscriber (me). > Sendmail claims it sent the mail to the users who didn't get it. I > recognize the symptoms say that Mailman is somehow involved, but I > don't see how. I recognize the difficulty of this particular problem. Thanks, Alan

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