Gaël Lams wrote:
This server has been running since a few months. New mailing lists have been added recently and it happens that emails sent to these lists are accepted by postfix, transferred to mailman ("delivered to command: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post $EXTENSION"), they are archived (they appear on the web-based mailman's archive) but then nothing happen. I don't find any errors on neither the postfix nor the mailman logs.
I did try to send an email on a older mailing list and I got the same problem: postfix accepts the message, gives it to mailman, email appears on the web-based archive, but then it's not sent to the members of the mailing lists.
I'm quite baffled by this problem and would appreciate any pointer.
Are there entries for the messages in Mailman's 'smtp' and 'post' logs? Presumably, there are not entries in Mailman's 'smtp-failure' log since you say "I don't find any errors on neither the postfix nor the mailman logs"
There are a few possibilities. The first that comes to mind is OutgoingRunner is not running and the messages are still queued in Mailman's out/ queue (this could be /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/out/, /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/out/. /var/spool/mailman/out/ or elsewhere depending on how Mailman was installed).
The basic FAQ for troubleshooting this issue is at <http://wiki.list.org/x/A4E9>. For your specific symptoms, see item 13.
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