[Mailman-Users] Email delays using Mailman and sendmail

[Mark Sapiro]

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

>* Patil, Manjiri S <mpatil at bu.edu>:
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> We have internal Mailing List server running Mailman 2.1.9 and SENDMAIL
>> 8.13.8. Whenever someone sent email to particular mailing list
>> (everyone at managemant.bu.edu)consisting app 300 users recipients receive
>> it after several hours. E.g see the following Email I sent yesterday at
>> 3:19PM that came in at 6:09 PM and some received at 7:09 PM. I don't
>> understand why there is so much delay when sending mail to 300 users
>> mailing list as oppose to Sending mail to 140 users list. 
>> 
>> Following is the part of SENDMAIL log when I sent message yesterday at
>> 3:19PM
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Apr 14 03:19:04 smgpub sendmail[20155]: m3E7J2PH020154:
>> to="|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post everyone", ctladdr=<everyone at management.bu.edu> (8/0), delay=00:00:01,
>> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=33465, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>> 
>> Apr 14 03:19:30 smgpub sendmail[20160]: m3E7JQre020157:
>> to="|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post everyone", ctladdr=<everyone at management.bu.edu> (8/0), delay=00:00:01,
>> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=37092, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent 
>
>> Apr 14 03:19:31 smgpub sendmail[20162]: m3E7JV6N020162:
>> from=<everyone-bounces at management.bu.edu>, size=8750, class=-60, nrcpts=1,
>> msgid=<mailman.1466.1208157569.20422.everyone at management.bu.edu>,
>> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=smgsendmail.bu.edu [127.0.0.1]
>
>I only see one recipient. "nrcpts=1". Where's the actual log?


Furthermore, that message has a Mailman generated Message-ID so it's a
notification. It could be an autoresponse to the poster or it could be
a 'held message' notice to the list owner.

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

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