[Mailman-Users] Messages not moving fro mail directory to qfiles directory

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Tue Mar 16 19:15:59 CET 2004


The mail should be downloaded straight into the Mailman script which 
moves it straight to the qfiles. The email should never be stored in a
local queue file once the alias for the list is invoked.

This indicates that you have a problem with the aliases (or your systems
interpretation of the aliases).  Please post an sample of your aliases
file.

Jon Carnes
===
On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 11:20, David Miner wrote:
> Jon,
> 
> I have created a list and received the notification of it.  I added the 
> list to the aliases file and sent messages to it.
> 
> maillog show the messages being passed to Mailman.  The messages get as far 
> as the mail directory and do not get to the qfiles directories.
> 
> At this point there is one file in the mail directory titled "mailman post 
> test" and it contains the several messages I have sent to the list.  There 
> are no files in any of the qfiles directories.
> 
> Additional information:  There is also a "mailman bounces test" and a 
> "mailman post fp" file in the mail directory.  There is also a "mailman" 
> file there.
> 
> According to your comment, the mailman post (and bounces) app is not 
> working.  What do I do to fix it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> 
> At 08:09 PM 3/15/2004 -0500, Jon Carnes wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 10:12, David Miner wrote:
> > > I am running version 2.1.4 of Mailman.
> > > It was installed from the FreeBSD port.
> > > I am running FreeBSD 4.9
> > > My MTA is sendmail.
> > >
> > > I have installed and configured Mailman 2.1.4.  I have created a list and
> > > entered the information in /etc/aliases and run newaliases.
> > >
> > > My /var/log/maillog show incoming mail being passed to Mailman.
> > >
> > > The messages are passed through the system until they reach the
> > > /usr/local/mailman/mail directory, then they stop.
> > >
> > > bin/check_perms says no problems.
> > >
> > > Qrunners and mailmanactl are running and show up in ps -aux.
> > >
> > > I have followed all of the steps in FAQ 3.14 Troubleshooting: No mail 
> > going
> > > out to lists members.
> > >
> > > A search of the mailman archives (because of the way I thin about the
> > > problem) either resulted in nothing or too much to search through.
> > >
> > > I scanned the archives month by month back to December 2003 and found 
> > nothing.
> > >
> > > Suggestions?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > > David
> >
> >David, have you created any lists successfully (and gotten notification
> >of their creations)? Did you create the "mailman" list?
> >
> >So... you've successfully created the mailman list and a test list. You
> >send to the test list and the MTA (Sendmail) runs the Mailman app
> >associated with that alias - so the message is now waiting in one of
> >your ~mailman/qfiles/..  directory's.
> >   cd ~mailman/qfiles/
> >   ls *
> >
> >Can you tell us if there are files there, and which directories they are
> >in?
> >
> >If there are no files in the qfiles directory, then either they are
> >getting processed by the qrunners (so there should be MTA records of the
> >outgoing mail) or they are not getting to the qfiles directory - so the
> >mailman post app is not working for the list.
> >
> >Jon Carnes
> >
> >
> >
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