[Mailman-Users] Help FreeBSD?, Sendmail, mailman?

[Bill Hoffman]

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