[Mailman-Users] Mailman not sending out mail

[Michelle Brownsworth]

>Is anything showing up in mailman's error log? $prefix/mailman/logs/error.
>There could be something there to shed some light on this.  As far as,
>getting rid of the extra postings, if they're still floating around the
>qfiles dir, just delete the corrosponding .msg, and .db files for the extra
>posting... be sure to leave at least one set however so it does go out.
>
>
>     -Richard Idalski


Nope, not a thing in the error log; that was the first place I 
looked.  Thanks for the tip about the qfiles dir, though.

.\\ichelle


>-----Original Message-----
>From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
>[mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Michelle Brownsworth
>Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 4:02 PM
>To: mailman-users at python.org
>Subject: [Mailman-Users] Mailman not sending out mail
>
>
>Gentle friends,
>
>I'm having a problem with Mailman 2.06, running on FreeBSD
>4.4-RELEASE.  It has been working perfectly up until now, serving
>three lists.  All of a sudden it won't send out mail posted to a
>list, although the wrapper receives it.  Here's the most recent post
>made by the moderator of the largest (1500) list:
>
>Dec 25 20:41:05 straylight sendmail[48896]: fBQ4f4U48896:
>from=<FISH1IFR at aol.com
>>, size=66192, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>>msgid=<f3.13c33a14.295aad85 at aol.com>, proto=ES
>MTP, daemon=MTA, relay=imo-d05.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.37]
>Dec 25 20:41:06 straylight sendmail[48897]: fBQ4f4U48896:
>to="|/usr/local/mailma
>n/mail/wrapper post fishlink",
>ctladdr=<fishlink at straylight.primelogic.com> (1/0
>), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=prog, pri=95692,
>dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>
>The cron jobs seem to be running every minute:
>
>68546  ??  I      0:00.00 cron: running job (cron)
>68550  ??  Is     0:00.01 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/python -S
>/usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
>68554  ??  I      0:00.67 /usr/local/bin/python -S
>/usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
>
>But I'm getting this message in /usr/local/mailman/logs:
>
>Dec 25 20:48:01 2001 (48945) Could not acquire qrunner lock
>Dec 25 20:49:02 2001 (48948) Could not acquire qrunner lock
>Dec 25 20:50:02 2001 (48956) Could not acquire qrunner lock
>Dec 25 20:51:02 2001 (48960) Could not acquire qrunner lock
>Dec 25 20:52:01 2001 (48968) Could not acquire qrunner lock
>Dec 25 20:54:02 2001 (48977) Could not acquire qrunner lock
>Dec 25 20:55:03 2001 (48986) Could not acquire qrunner lock
>
>Lock files are being created:
>
>/usr/local/mailman/locks# ls -al
>total 4
>drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  mailman  512 Dec 26 12:07 .
>drwxrwsr-x  18 mailman  mailman  512 Oct 31 14:55 ..
>-rw-rw-r--   2 mailman  mailman   69 Dec 26 21:52 qrunner.lock
>-rw-rw-r--   2 mailman  mailman   69 Dec 26 21:52
>qrunner.lock.straylight.primelogic.com.68866
>/usr/local/mailman/locks# ls -al
>total 4
>drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  mailman  512 Dec 26 12:46 .
>drwxrwsr-x  18 mailman  mailman  512 Oct 31 14:55 ..
>-rw-rw-r--   2 mailman  mailman   69 Dec 26 22:28 qrunner.lock
>-rw-rw-r--   2 mailman  mailman   69 Dec 26 22:28
>qrunner.lock.straylight.primelogic.com.69414
>
>Oddly, the times on the lockfiles are off, set in the future.  Here's
>the current time:
>
>/usr/local/mailman/locks# date
>Wed Dec 26 12:47:11 PST 2001
>
>I removed the locks as a test but they were recreated with different
>numeric extensions.
>
>/usr/local/mailman/logs/post has no entries corresponding to the post above.
>
>Also, if the problem is solved the list owner will not want all three
>of his attempts to post to be delivered.  Is there a means to delete
>the last two attempts so his subscribers won't be spammed with the
>same newsletter?
>
>Hope someone can shed some light, because I'm at a loss here.
>
>.\\ichelle
>---------------------
>Michelle Brownsworth
>System Administrator
>PrimeLogic Corporation
>http://www.primelogic.com
>
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