[Mailman-Users] Issues with SMTPdirect

Stephen mailman at theabysss.com
Wed Apr 19 14:56:57 CEST 2006


Mark;

Thanks ever so much you pointed me to a way to debug, unfortunately we 
rolled out the fix yesterday and I was unable to replicate the issue. It did 
however appear that the user mailman lacked access to the /etc/hosts file. 
There is a side question one of the System Administrators was curious as to 
why when exim would be restarted it force mailman to function.......albeit 
very slowly... is it caching or something alike?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Sapiro" <msapiro at value.net>
To: "Stephen" <mailman at theabysss.com>; <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Issues with SMTPdirect


> Stephen wrote:
>
>>We are currently having issues, with we suspect SMTPdirect, which is 
>>currently set to "localhost". The following are some error messages we 
>>recieve;
>>
>>Apr 18 09:00:04 2006 (7284) Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection 
>>refused')
>>delivery to hiddenaddress at somedomain failed with code -1: (111, 
>>'Connection refused')
>>
>>
>>We are seeing hours to multiple days in delay of sending, what appears to 
>>be happening is it tries to send to smtpdirect for a period of time then 
>>finally gives up and uses /usr/lib/sendmail, now we think we tracked it 
>>down.
>
>
> Mailman doesn't do this. If SMTPDirect thinks the error is retryable,
> it will queue the message for retry in the retry queue and it will be
> retried later, but by SMTPDirect, not by any other method.
>
>
>>But we would like to be able to have more verbose logging, to see what 
>>smtpdirect is trying to connect too. Is this possible, minding that we 
>>have perl programmers and what not but no one that is a python wizard.
>
>
> SMTPDirect by default is trying to connect to port 25 on 'localhost'.
> You can change either or both of these by assigning SMTPHOST and/or
> SMTPPORT in mm_cfg.py. (Note that SMTPPORT = 0 says use the smtplib
> default port which is port 25.)
>
>
> See
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.014.htp>.
> It is about a different problem, so the solutions probably aren't
> directly relevant, but there are small Python snippets and pointers to
> others in the archives that may help you with diagnosis.
>
> The logging in SMTPDirect is pretty verbose already. Between the
> 'post', 'smtp' and 'smtp-failure' logs, you get quite a bit. You can
> change the SMTP_LOG_* settings in mm_cfg.py (see the descriptions in
> Defaults.py) to get more things reported by the various log
> statements, but you can't add additional log statements this way. For
> that you actually have to modify SMTPDirect.py.
>
> But, the debug suggestions in the FAQ article should help you find more
> information.
>
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
> 




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