[Mailman-Users] Newbie: Trying to set up mailman

[Mark Sapiro]

Richard Bates wrote:
>
>I searched the faq:
>	and tried to do all the items in faq
>	3.14. Troubleshooting: No mail going out to lists members


Did you check that mailmanctl and all 8 qrunners are running. Your
symptom is that at least one of IncomingRunner and OutgoingRunner is
not running,


>I did notice that the mailuser "nobody" is getting mail every
>5 min I don't know what this message means...
>=== startmessage
> From operator at mail2.telehouse.com  Tue Nov  7 12:55:00 2006
>X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on  
>mail2.telehouse.com
>X-Spam-Level:
>X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.5 tests=NO_RELAYS autolearn=no
>         version=3.1.7
>X-Original-To: operator
>Delivered-To: operator at mail2.telehouse.com
>From: operator at mail2.telehouse.com (Cron Daemon)
>To: operator at mail2.telehouse.com
>Subject: Cron <operator at mail2> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
>X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
>X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
>X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
>X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=operator>
>X-Cron-Env: <USER=operator>
>Date: Tue,  7 Nov 2006 12:55:00 -0500 (EST)
>X-Procmail-Status1: Global
>X-Virus-Status: No
>X-Virus-Checker-Version: clamassassin 1.2.3 with clamscan / ClamAV  
>0.88.5/2035/Sun Oct 15 16:42:30 2006
>
>YES: not found
>===== end message


If this is related to Mailman, it is because something is messed up in
mailman's crontab. The crontab sgould be running several daily jobs at
various times plus cron/gate_news every 5 minutes. Thes should run as
the mailman user. It looks like crond is trying to run the command
'YES' as 'operator'.
>Nov  7 12:40:20 mail2 postfix/local[70183]: 814EA9581F:  
>to=<mylist at mail2.mysite.com>, relay=local, delay=0.21,  
>delays=0.02/0.01/0/0.17, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to  
>command: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mylist)


So the mail is being delivered properly to the wrapper.


>Here is the /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases file


So the aliases are OK


>here is teh /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py
>===== Start mm_cfg.py
># -*- python -*-
>
># Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002 by the Free Software  
>Foundation, Inc.
>#
># This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>
>###############################################
># Here's where we get the distributed defaults.
>
>from Defaults import *
>
>##################################################
># Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line.
>IMAGE_Logos = '/images/'
>MTA = 'Postfix'
>DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mail2.mysite.com'
>DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mail2.mysite.com'
>===== End mm_cfg.py


If the above settings for DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST and DEFAULT_URL_HOST are
different from what is in Defaults.py, you shold also have after the
two settings

VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear()
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

although this is not your immediate problem.


Are the messaages in one of Mailman's queues? Do

ls -laR qfiles/

Are there any files of form tttt.tttt+xxxxxx.pck in any of the
subdirectories of qfiles/?. If so, in which subdirectory?

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