On 9/5/07, Patrick M. wrote:
I just installed Mailman on our load balanced Postfix servers. Both servers share a common NFS point.
Did you install it on all of them, or just one? When you say they share a common NFS point, are you trying to use NFS for the postfix mail queue (which is a really, really bad idea), or just for the user mailboxes (which is also usually a bad idea, although it can be made somewhat less bad if you choose a mailbox format that is less NFS-unfriendly)?
Mailman itself is about as NFS-friendly as can be reasonably done, but that still leaves a lot of room for problems. Many of the other parts of most mail systems are much, much less NFS-friendly than Mailman.
Please forgive me, as I'm very new to Mailman. While I know my way around Postfix, troubleshooting Mailman is another issue.
When troubleshooting Mailman, you generally want to start with the steps outlined in FAQ 4.78 at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.078.htp>. You should also search the FAQ Wizard for other things that might be related to your problems, and you should also search the archives.
Since I don't know how to troubleshoot Mailman, I can only suspect that is has something to do with the NFS, although another part of me is telling me that it can't be.
If NFS is involved anywhere in the picture, odds of Mr. Murphy raising his nasty head have been increased by many, many orders of magnitude.
That said, there are occasionally times when such a system has problems that are actually unrelated to NFS.
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