[Mailman-Users] Re: no mail out to lists

[Jon Carnes]

hmmm, do the headers from the email shed much light on what is going on?
They should at least indicate *where* the mail was held (and then released).
That should gain you a clue as to where to concentrate your search.

Could the spamming/sending just be coincidental?

Good Luck
----- Original Message -----
From: "peter schoch" <pschoch at sussex.cc.nj.us>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 6:35 AM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Re: no mail out to lists


>What do the logs and the times of the entries in your MTA show. Is it
              >passing the mail into the mailman alias properly? Check the
time.
              >Now check the Mailman logs and when it shows the message
accepted for
              >posting. The time should be very close to the MTA's time.
              >Now back to the MTA, does it show the message going out to
the folks on
              >the list?

              >What are you using as your MTA?

I'm using Sendmail - possibly a bad choice, but it's what I have always
used.

I check the maillog files.  The messages come in and within 1 - 10 seconds
are being sent to mailman.  I then check the mailman logs and I have no
errors (the error log is empty)  I have only a few bounces, and they are
from spammers.


              >Hmmm, that sounds suspiciously like a Digest Trigger (How big
in Kb
              >should a digest be before it gets sent out?)

              >In the web admin, is the first option marked as "Yes" (Can
subscribers
              >choose to receive mail immediately, rather than in batched
digests?)

Yes, I have the option for users to be able to receive mail as it comes in
or digest.  I also have it set that even if the mail does not reach the
minimum to automatically send out the digest, it should send it out once a
day.  But it's doing neither.
--
Now, being a physicist by trade I've started to experiment.  I can "spam" my
test list with a minimum of 53 messages and it will trigger something and
send out all messages for all the lists.  I tried it yesterday and it sent
all accumulated messages since the last time I tried this.  The amazing
thing is that the time and date stamp on all of the messages was the exact
time and day they were sent into the list!  So, rather than saying No. 13 at
3 PM, they said Nov. 11 at 2 PM and Nov. 10 at 10 AM, etc.

I also got digests to come out (don't ask me how) yesterday, and they too
were time and date stamped when they should've emerged - Sunday at 11AM and
Monday at 11AM, but I didn't get one for Tuesday! Even if no messages were
sent, I should get an empty digest.

So, now I'm really confused.  I checked the que in mailman and it is empty.
I hunted around in sendmail, and there is no apparent delay set.  There are
no locks set in mailman.  I have no errors in the logs.

What could be causing the delay?  And, why is it (sort of) removed when I
"spam" a list?

(I asked the UNIX/Linux guru on our campus, and he also had no idea.  He and
I spent several hours checking the log files.)

Peter Schoch


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