[Mailman-Users] Mailman Stalls for Outgoing Emalis

[Brad Knowles]

At 6:37 PM -0400 2006-08-08, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:

>  Once this occurs, outgoing mail ceases until a restart of the 
>service/runners.

Have you looked at the section of the FAQ discussing performance 
tuning of your system?  See FAQs 6.3, 6.6, and 6.8.

>  I believe the box is hitting it's limit of sendmail services and refusing
>  service and that the mailman service is not gracefully retrying later,
>  either by design or a bug.  Is this expected behavior or is there a setting
>  I have missed?

That's a reasonable conclusion, but with proper tuning of the MTA and 
configuration of Mailman, you shouldn't reach that point.  Start with 
the FAQ entries mentioned above.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

     -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
     Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755

  Founding Individual Sponsor of LOPSA.  See <http://www.lopsa.org/>.