[Mailman-Users] All lists work except one

[Jonathan Duncan]

Ok, now I feel silly.  I found the mailbox that the bounce messages were 
going to.  They were being sent back to the mailbox whose address I had 
been using to send from.

Thank anyway.

Jonathan



On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Jonathan Duncan wrote:

> I think I found the problem, or at least a solution, but it does not make 
> sense that it would have been a problem.
>
> I went into "Privacy options..." under "Sender filters" and added the e-mail 
> address that I was sending from to the "List of non-member addresses whose 
> postings should be automatically accepted." field.  I resent the message and 
> this time it was delivered to the list.
>
> The confusing part is, if not having that address in the Sender filters was 
> the problem, why did not the message get bounced or moderated or something 
> instead of just disappearing.  On that same page the "Action to take for 
> postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined." is set to 
> "Reject".  Ah, but the "Should messages from non-members, which are 
> automatically discarded, be forwarded to the list moderator?" is set to "No". 
> Although that should not make a difference, right?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Jonathan Duncan wrote:
>
>> I have a server with three mailing lists on it.  Two of them send messages 
>> just fine.  The two lists that send fine have less than ten users each.
>> 
>> The third list is the newest and it does not deliver any messages that are 
>> sent to it.  This list has 400+ users.  If I add or remove users from this 
>> list, I, as list admin, get informational messages about such actions. 
>> However, when I or the other moderator try sending messages to this list, 
>> they just disappear.  Meaning, they do not go into the moderated requests 
>> queue, they do not bounce back to the sender, they do not get sent to 
>> anyone, they are not stuck in the "qfiles" directory.  From what I have 
>> been able to find, they are silently sent to nowhere at all, aka /dev/null.
>> 
>> Umm.. help?  Following is some information about a message that I sent 
>> through the list.  This information is from two log files on the server as 
>> indicated.
>> 
>> (Yes, I looked in the FAQ and searched briefly in the archives for this 
>> list.)
>> 
>> -----------------------------
>> -----------------------------
>> /var/log/maillog
>> ----------------
>> 
>> -Mar  8 15:21:12 mail sm-mta[68348]: j28MLBAH068348: 
>> from=<sender at domain.com>, size=2711, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
>> msgid=<20050308151539.W28582 at hostname.origination.com>, proto=ESMTP, 
>> daemon=MTA-v4, relay=hostname.origination.com [111.111.111.111]
>> 
>> -Mar  8 15:21:13 mail sm-mta[68377]: j28MLBAH068348: 
>> to="|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post listname", 
>> ctladdr=<listname at domain.com> (26/0), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:01, 
>> mailer=prog, pri=32982, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>> 
>> -Mar  8 15:21:21 mail sm-mta[68471]: j28MLLSb068471: 
>> from=<listname-bounces at mangosteenalliance.com>, size=4003, class=-60, 
>> nrcpts=1, msgid=<mailman.1.1110320476.82610.listname at domain.com>, 
>> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-v4, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
>> 
>> -Mar  8 15:21:22 mail sm-mta[68473]: j28MLLSb068471: 
>> to=<sender at domain.com>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local, 
>> pri=142225, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>> 
>> -----------------------------
>> -----------------------------
>> ~mailman/logs/smtp
>> ------------------
>> 
>> Mar 08 15:21:21 2005 (82619) 
>> <mailman.1.1110320476.82610.listname at domain.com> smtp for 1 recips, 
>> completed in 0.453 seconds
>> -----------------------------
>> -----------------------------
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Jonathan
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