Emails not being sent, but showing up in archives?
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Hello,
For the last two months or so, the emails that I send out on the mailman list do not get sent out to the subscribers, but do show up on the archived threads. I am not very mailman savvy, and have recently taken over admin roles from someone else. Any guidance on how I might address the issue would be appreciated!
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On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 12:15 PM Seeds of Success < seedsofsuccessblm@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
You could look at the Mailman's log files located in ~list/logs/ (assuming that Mailman is running as user "list") and also your MTA logs to see what happened.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
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Seeds of Success writes:
- Have you tried restarting Mailman?
- If you did, and that didn't work, did you try rebooting?
- Is there anything in any of the queue directories ($var_dir/queue/*)? $var_dir is often /var/lib/mailman, but other directories are used. If they are in .../shunt or in .../bad, there's something complex going on, but if they're in the other queue directories restarting Mailman should clear them out.
- Is your MTA running (if other mail is going out, it is)?
- Is mail piling up in the MTA queue (most mail systems have a "mailq" command to check this)?
- Is it happening at a specific recipient domain? Gmail (and maybe other Google sites) are famous for suddenly deciding to eat all your list mail without telling you. They're not the only ones who do it, just particularly famous.
- If you have a smarthost (outgoing mail gateway) configured, check the same things as for 4 and 5.
There are other things to check but that should keep you busy for a while.
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On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 12:15 PM Seeds of Success < seedsofsuccessblm@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
You could look at the Mailman's log files located in ~list/logs/ (assuming that Mailman is running as user "list") and also your MTA logs to see what happened.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
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Seeds of Success writes:
- Have you tried restarting Mailman?
- If you did, and that didn't work, did you try rebooting?
- Is there anything in any of the queue directories ($var_dir/queue/*)? $var_dir is often /var/lib/mailman, but other directories are used. If they are in .../shunt or in .../bad, there's something complex going on, but if they're in the other queue directories restarting Mailman should clear them out.
- Is your MTA running (if other mail is going out, it is)?
- Is mail piling up in the MTA queue (most mail systems have a "mailq" command to check this)?
- Is it happening at a specific recipient domain? Gmail (and maybe other Google sites) are famous for suddenly deciding to eat all your list mail without telling you. They're not the only ones who do it, just particularly famous.
- If you have a smarthost (outgoing mail gateway) configured, check the same things as for 4 and 5.
There are other things to check but that should keep you busy for a while.
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Odhiambo Washington
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Seeds of Success
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Stephen J. Turnbull