[Mailman-Users] Help newbie with a common error (smrsh)?

[Mark Sapiro]

Tony Croes wrote:

>I have just installed mailman on a RHEL4 system from the RedHat network via
>RPM. I can reach the list and admin tools via the web (i.e. cgi working). I
>can create lists, add new users and submit posts. However, these posts only
>show up in the web archives. I'm not getting them as forwarded email
>messages. 
>
>When I look at the archives, I see repeated posts from Cron <mailman at server>
>with the following error:
>
>    "/bin/sh: mailman: command not found"


This error is due to improper installation of Mailman's crontab and has
nothing to do with your missing emails.

RedHat makes a crontab which they intend to be installed as
/etc/cron.d/mailman. Thus, the crontab contains the userid (mailman)
under which to run the command in field 6 and the command in field 7.
You have installed this as the crontab for the mailman user. User
crontab entries do not have the userid in field 6.


>I've tried to follow the faq (3.14 Troubleshooting: No mail going out to
>list members), but so far no luck. Here is some additional information:
>
>mailman exists and is executable (tried as root):
>[root at server mail]# /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman
>Usage: /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman program [args...]
>[root at server mail]# file mailman
>mailman: setgid ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
>(SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not
>stripped
>[root at server mail]# ll mailman
>-rwxrwsr-x 1 root mailman 19154 Aug 23 07:22 mailman
>
>"smrsh" symlink:
>[root at server mail]# ls /etc/smrsh/
>mailman
>[root at server mail]# file /etc/smrsh/mailman
>/etc/smrsh/mailman: symbolic link to `/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman'


All of the above affect delivery of incoming mail to Mailman which is
working.


>I have these aliases. I commented out the first two which must have been put
>there by the RPM install. I have not tried commenting out the duplicates
>lower in the list and leaving the originals in:
>
># mailman aliases
># mailman: postmaster
># mailman-owner: mailman
>
># mailman mailing list
>mailman: "| /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"
>mailman-admin: "| /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman"
>mailman-bounces: "| /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman"
>mailman-confirm: "| /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman"
>mailman-join: "| /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman"
>mailman-leave: "| /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman"
>mailman-owner: "| /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman"
>mailman-request: "| /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman"
>mailman-subscribe: "| /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman"
>mailman-unsubscribe: "| /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman"


Likewise aliases only affect delivery of incoming mail to Mailman which
is working.


>This is the kind of output I get when I tail maillog:
>
>Oct 21 12:27:14 server sendmail[19396]: k9LHRDWj019396:
>from=<tony.croes at sbcglob al.net>, size=1676, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<200610211727.k9LHRDWj019396 at server .ctrcc.com>, proto=SMTP,
>daemon=MTA, relay=smtp102.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.14 2.198.201]
>Oct 21 12:27:15 server MailScanner[11624]: New Batch: Scanning 1
>messages, 2280 bytes
>Oct 21 12:27:21 server MailScanner[11624]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>Starting
>Oct 21 12:27:23 server MailScanner[11624]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
>messages
>Oct 21 12:27:23 server MailScanner[11624]: Batch (1 message) processed
>in 7.97 s econds
>Oct 21 12:27:24 server sendmail[19580]: k9LHRDWj019396:
>to="| /usr/lib/mailman/m ail/mailman post mailman",
>ctladdr=<mailman at server.ctrcc.com> (8/0), delay=00:00 :10,
>xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=121676, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent


Yes, the mail is delivered to Mailman. Its appearance in the archive
proves that. Your problem is why is mail from Mailman not getting out.

Is OutgoingRunner Running?

What's in Mailman's 'smtp' and 'smtp-failure' logs?

Are there entries in mailman's qfiles/out/, qfiles/retry/ and/or
qfiles/shunt queue directories?

If there are entries in qfiles/shunt/, what's in Mailman's error log.

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