News -> Mail: no mail! (repost)
I posted this one last week, but no response, yet. Any takers on this one? I thought this was a fairly simple one -- or is it just uninteresting?
Thanks.
Smith
I'm in the process of setting up a server with the following:
- Fedora Core 1
- Mailman 2.1.4
- Sendmail 8.12.10
- INN 2.3.5
Mailman, Sendmail and INN all have been installed from the .RPM bundled with Fedora.
I'm doing this setup as an internal server, so I'm not exchanging traffic with the Internet at larger.
Where I currently am is that I have Mailman working fine as a mailing list server, and no problems at all with INN as a news server. I also am not having any difficutly of getting mail to news.
However, where I am having difficulties is in getting messages composed in news back to mail. In my mailman configs, I'm pretty much running with default settings -- in fact, the only things I'm specifying in my mm_cfg.py are the necessary settings for the server name.
I do have all the supplied activities running in the mailman user's crontab, and those are running on the specified schedules.
The specific place where I'm having problems is when I run gate_news, I'm getting no response, other than a single log entry in /var/log/cron:
Apr 27 15:00:01 bronze CROND[12436]: (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/gate_news)
If I run gate_news from a shell prompt, I get a pause for a few seconds, and then a new prompt, but no other output.
I've checked all of my logs, including /var/log/maillog and /var/log/mailman/*, and there are no updates to any of these logs following gate_news runs.
I also checked all the steps in the troubleshooting section (3.14) of the Mailman FAQ. The only thing that turned up other than what should be is that that a check_perms check showed that the permissions of the files in /var/mailman/qfiles were incorrect. On the advice of check_perms, I ran 'chmod 02775 *' on the directory. (These files have owner:group set to: mailman:mailman ). I then restarted all the mailman services by rebooting the machine. Following that, I'm still having the same behavior.
What I'm missing has to be something small, but I'm not seeing it. Any clues?
Thanks in advance.
Smith
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On May 6, 2004, at 06:40, NFN Smith wrote:
I've checked all of my logs, including /var/log/maillog and /var/log/mailman/*, and there are no updates to any of these logs following gate_news runs.
What about your news log files (typically in /var/log/news/*)? Do they show Mailman successfully talking to the server?
Did you try reseting the Usenet article number high water mark? (Set the "Should Mailman perform a catchup on the newsgroup?" to Yes and Submit once.)
After I posted my original message, I got diverted to other things, and am just getting back to this one.
Jim Tittsler wrote:
On May 6, 2004, at 06:40, NFN Smith wrote:
I've checked all of my logs, including /var/log/maillog and /var/log/mailman/*, and there are no updates to any of these logs following gate_news runs.
What about your news log files (typically in /var/log/news/*)? Do they show Mailman successfully talking to the server?
Did you try reseting the Usenet article number high water mark? (Set the "Should Mailman perform a catchup on the newsgroup?" to Yes and Submit once.)
Yes, I just did that. From there I posted a message to a newsgroup.
I have updated entries in /var/log/news/news.notice:
Jun 14 14:25:01 bronze nnrpd[10075]: SERVER perl filtering enabled Jun 14 14:25:01 bronze nnrpd[10075]: bronze.spamtronics.com connect Jun 14 14:25:01 bronze nnrpd[10075]: bronze.spamtronics.com times
user 0.030 system 0.050 elapsed 0.014
Jun 14 14:27:33 bronze nnrpd[10140]: SERVER perl filtering enabled Jun 14 14:27:34 bronze nnrpd[10140]: ? cant gethostbyaddr 192.168.1.107 Unknown host -- using IP address for access Jun 14 14:27:34 bronze nnrpd[10140]: 192.168.1.107 connect Jun 14 14:27:34 bronze nnrpd[10140]: 192.168.1.107 group local.test1 0 Jun 14 14:27:34 bronze nnrpd[10140]: 192.168.1.107 group local.test2 0 Jun 14 14:27:37 bronze nnrpd[10140]: 192.168.1.107 group local.user.tech 0 Jun 14 14:28:09 bronze innd: localhost connected 16 Jun 14 14:28:09 bronze innd: ME HISstats 0 hitpos 0 hitneg 0 missed 0 dne Jun 14 14:28:09 bronze nnrpd[10140]: 192.168.1.107 post ok cal598$9ss$1@bronze.spamtronics.com Jun 14 14:28:09 bronze innd: localhost:16 closed seconds 0 accepted 1 refused 0 rejected 0 duplicate 0 accepted size 792 duplicate size 0 Jun 14 14:28:32 bronze nnrpd[10140]: 192.168.1.107 group local.user.tech 1 Jun 14 14:30:01 bronze nnrpd[10150]: SERVER perl filtering enabled Jun 14 14:30:01 bronze nnrpd[10150]: bronze.spamtronics.com connect Jun 14 14:30:01 bronze nnrpd[10150]: bronze.spamtronics.com times user 0.030 system 0.050 elapsed 0.019
Thus, it appears that gate_news is running, but I'm still not getting any content back to Mail from News.
What am I missing?
Smith
At 2:34 PM -0700 2004-06-14, NFN Smith wrote:
Thus, it appears that gate_news is running, but I'm still not getting any content back to Mail from News.
Hmm. You might want to try hooking your mailing list up to a different newsgroup, and trying again. I've had good success in testing with misc.test. The nice thing about this is that you'll get e-mail feedback from a variety of auto-responders as they see the article come across the wire, so you'll get confirmation that your post is getting out.
You might also want to hook up a network sniffer device (or a program like tcpdump or snoop) on the host to watch all incoming and outgoing NNTP traffic between your Mailing list server and the USENET news server. This way you can see the entire dialog between the server and client, in addition to whatever they put in the logs.
-- Brad Knowles, brad.knowles@skynet.be
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