[Mailman-Users] Why some messages aren't distributed?

[Jon Carnes]

Check to see if the messages have been shunted:
  ~mailman/qfiles/shunt/..

Also check on your MTA and see if it is using your fully qualified
domain name or merely a subset of your domain name (like fred instead of
fred.mynet.com).

Jon Carnes

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 07:22, Marina Markus wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> We have Mailman 2.1.1 running on Linux Redhat7.1. While in general
> it works OK and servers over 90 lists, a strange thing happens
> from time to time: a message sent to the list isn't distributed
> without any reasons. Sometimes during one day, out of four messages
> posted by the same list member, two are distributed, and two are not.
> 
> List member gets no messages from the list indicating that something
> wasn't accepted; and list manager and moderator also receives nothing.
> 
> Log files in ~mailman/logs contain nothing concerning messages
> that were not distributed; "post" file contains only records 
> about those messages that were distributed.
> 
> The log file of Sendmail "/var/log/maillog" shows the arrival
> of the message to be posted in all cases. In cases when the message
> is distributed, it shows sending of this message to list members.
> In case when it's not, there is no record related to distribution;
> the record following the arrival record is:
> 
> Mar 11 15:25:31 lists sendmail[508]: NOQUEUE: lists.bgu.ac.il
> [132.72.137.215] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to
> Daemon0
> 
> Maybe this may contain some hint for a problem, which I can't decipher.
> 
> I'll be grateful for any idea what to look for.
> Regards,
> 
> Marina Markus
> Ben-Gurion University Computer Center
> Beer-Sheva, Israel
> ======================
> mary at bgumail.bgu.ac.il
> 
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