[Mailman-Users] Posts Not Going Through

[Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:06:21AM -0400, Rich West wrote the following:
<snip>
> *nod*  However, that does tend to lead to a MTA (sendmail, postfix, etc) 
> error as opposed to a problem with Mailman.  You may want to confirm 
> your settings in Mailman/mm_cfg.py with regards to your mailhost and such.

Nothing in there except a few lines (and lots of comments) that look like
this:

from Defaults import *

> 
> What mail server software are you running?  And does it reside on the 
> same, or different, machine?

Exim, local.

> >There is no maillog file.
> > 
> >
> 
> Not sure where gentoo would put it, but you might have to check in your 
> /etc/syslog.conf to see where it puts all of the "mail.*" notifications, 
> and then check that file to see what is being logged there.

Oct 24 04:33:18 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6705]: processing message <mailman.1.1098
610393.6847.rifts-pbem at joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> for jnagyjr:1000.
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6702]: connection from localhost [127.0.0
.1] at port 32822
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6702]: info: setuid to jnagyjr succeeded
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6702]: Argument "n.nn" isn't numeric in a
ddition (+) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 2
38.
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6702]: Argument "n.nn" isn't numeric in a
ddition (+) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 2
38.
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6702]: Argument "n.nn" isn't numeric in a
ddition (+) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 2
38.
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6702]: Argument "n.nn" isn't numeric in a
ddition (+) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 2
38.
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6702]: processing message <mailman.3.1098
610394.6847.rifts-pbem at joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> for jnagyjr:1000.
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6703]: connection from localhost [127.0.0
.1] at port 32823
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6703]: info: setuid to jnagyjr succeeded
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6703]: Argument "n.nn" isn't numeric in a
ddition (+) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 2
38.
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6703]: Argument "n.nn" isn't numeric in a
ddition (+) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 2
38.
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6703]: Argument "n.nn" isn't numeric in a
ddition (+) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 2
38.
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6703]: Argument "n.nn" isn't numeric in a
ddition (+) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 2
38.
Oct 24 04:33:19 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6703]: processing message <mailman.5.1098
610395.6847.rifts-pbem at joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> for jnagyjr:1000.
Oct 24 04:33:21 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6705]: clean message (-5.9/5.0) for jnagy
jr:1000 in 3.3 seconds, 6497 bytes.
Oct 24 04:33:21 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6705]: result: . -5 - ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_0
0,NO_REAL_NAME scantime=3.3,size=6497,mid=<mailman.1.1098610393.6847.rifts-pbem@
joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>,bayes=9.41923372632658e-10,autolearn=ham
Oct 24 04:33:22 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6702]: clean message (-4.3/5.0) for jnagy
jr:1000 in 3.0 seconds, 7514 bytes.
Oct 24 04:33:22 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6702]: clean message (-4.3/5.0) for jnagy
jr:1000 in 3.0 seconds, 7514 bytes.
Oct 24 04:33:22 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6702]: result: . -4 - ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAY
ES_05,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_MOSTLY,NO_REAL_NAME scantime=3.0,size=7514,mid=<mai
lman.3.1098610394.6847.rifts-pbem at joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>,bayes=0.0280144577918803,
autolearn=ham
Oct 24 04:33:23 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6703]: clean message (-3.5/5.0) for jnagy
jr:1000 in 3.9 seconds, 7542 bytes.
Oct 24 04:33:23 joseph-a-nagy-jr spamd[6703]: result: . -3 - ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAY
ES_05,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_MOSTLY,NO_REAL_NAME scantime=3.9,size=7542,mid=<mai
lman.5.1098610395.6847.rifts-pbem at joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>,bayes=0.0280144577918803,
autolearn=ham

Relevant messages from /var/log/messages (default log file)

Sorry for the hard returns, I copy/pasted from Eterm and less.

> >I'm still as lost. Here's the relevant entries for that file:
> > 
> >
> 
> The aliases look good (I see you're not using smrsh with your email 
> server).  You're actually not as lost as you think you are.. at least 
> you know that mailman is trying to send the emails, but failing 
> miserably.  Now you need to dig through and find out why its 
> communication with the mail server is failing..  The mail server logs 
> should help you there..
> 
> -Rich
> 

So what's going on? Is this no longer a mailman problem and an Exim
problem, I'll head on over to the exim users list.

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