[Mailman-Users] Help no mail getting out (FreeBSD?, Sendmail, mailman?)

Fri Sep 14 23:14:55 CEST 2001

I have been using mailman for the vtkusers list for about a year now.
Everything was going quite well, until a disk crashed. I was able
to recover the old, lists and everything seemed to be going well.

I am running this:
FreeBSD 4.4-RC3
mailman-2.0.6

About three days ago the mail stopped.

As far as the logs I am getting a bunch of this stuff:
....
Sep 14 16:30:03 2001 (12593) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Sep 14 16:31:02 2001 (12663) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Sep 14 16:32:02 2001 (12667) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Sep 14 16:33:02 2001 (12675) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Sep 14 16:34:01 2001 (12689) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Sep 14 16:35:02 2001 (12708) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Sep 14 16:36:02 2001 (12724) Could not acquire qrunner lock

logs/smtp
Sep 10 16:19:02 2001 (87765) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.641 seconds
Sep 10 16:45:45 2001 (2181) smtp for 654 recips, completed in 443.366 seconds
Sep 10 16:49:46 2001 (5068) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 225.345 seconds
... all the times are very long now after this point.

logs/smtp-failure
Can not check MX records for recipient host dc.ufscar.br)
Sep 14 09:29:04 2001 (75288) 450 rodrigod at dc.ufscar.br (4.7.1 <rodrigod at dc.ufsca
r.br>... Can not check MX records for recipient host dc.ufscar.br)
Sep 14 09:32:32 2001 (75592) 450 rodrigod at dc.ufscar.br (4.7.1 <rodrigod at dc.ufsca
r.br>... Can not check MX records for recipient host dc.ufscar.br)

logs/posts
Sep 14 09:21:32 2001 (75288) post to vtkusers from tedyvtk at gogo.com.br, size=401
9, 1 failures
Sep 14 09:24:03 2001 (75288) post to vtkusers from tedyvtk at gogo.com.br, size=417
3, 1 failures
Sep 14 09:26:33 2001 (75288) post to vtkusers from dalleyg at dma.org, size=570, 1 
failures
Sep 14 09:29:04 2001 (75288) post to vtkusers from krw at viz-solutions.com, size=6
97, 1 failures
Sep 14 09:32:32 2001 (75592) post to vtkusers from charlie.chang at nchc.gov.tw, si
ze=2325, 1 failures

Very little mail seems to be getting out.

I found this on google groups:
From: Marc MERLIN <marc_news at v...>
Date: Fri Nov 3, 2000 7:14 pm
Subject: [Exim] name resolution with mailman and exim

Ok, so here's the deal:
Sourceforge hosts a lot of mailing lists with mailman, and I'm helping with
their new setup.

Mailman will spool all the incoming mailing list posts and run through the
queue once a minute with a single threaded process, and that process takes
every post and feeds them to (currently) sendmail.
One mail from, and lots of rcpt to (batches of 100 I think).
Actually, you can tell mailman not to spool and talk to the MTA directly,
but that was unreliable apparently.

The problem is that some list subscribers are in countries where DNS is slow
and unreliable.

Any ideas for a fix would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

-Bill