[Mailman-Users] Incoming Mail not being processed?

[jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu]

I am using Postfix and when I send a test to the mailman list, which I
am a member of I can see it being sent in the maillog:
Nov 18 17:39:42 lists postfix/smtp[3953]: DBFB98C0011:
to=<jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu>,
relay=ims.washburnlaw.edu[198.252.9.211]:25, delay=0.11,
delays=0.03/0.02/0.05/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 Message accepted
for delivery)

Now where and what am I looking for in what log.  When I look at;
/usr/local/mailman/logs/smtp I see stuff like:
Nov 18 17:52:09 2008 (2062) <49235563.9020007 at washburn.edu> smtp to
mailman for 1 recips, completed in 0.045 seconds

Is this what I am suppose to be looking for?

By the way, right now (probably because everyone's gone from work) mail
is getting delivered within 5 minutes or less.  Yet during lunchtime it
would be hours of a delay.  

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:46 pm
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Incoming Mail not being processed?
To: Jewel <jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu>
Cc: Mail List - Mailman <mailman-users at python.org>

> Jewel wrote:
> 
> >At first mail was being delivered - then it stopped - and now it's 
> >delivering again but everytime it has been delivering the messages 
> are 
> >delivered out of order and the delay can be anywhere from 10 min - 
> 4 
> >hours.
> 
> 
> Is your incoming MTA greylisting? This can cause delays and out of
> sequence messages, and you can't control the delay because it's
> entirely up to the sending MTA. However, if it is greylisting, it
> would normally affect only the first post from any particular user to
> any particular list. Also, if the message reaches the list archive
> without delay, that rules out greylisting.
> 
> 
> >I looked at the FAQ and I know this is not my issue because users 
> >from gmail, aol, yahoo, etc are receiving - it's just that they 
> response 
> >of post is delayed.
> 
> 
> OK if the problem is only delay and not totally missing messages,
> however, it is possible that some AOL (or other ISP) users will
> receive a message and others not because of their individual
> whitelists, spam options, etc.
> 
> 
> >If I send a test to the mailman list (which I am a 
> >member of) I can see in the /var/log/maillog that the message was 
> sent 
> >and my smtp log looks fine.  I can also see the post in archives.  
> A 
> >while later I will finally see the post in my inbox.
> 
> 
> This sounds like a backlogged out/ queue --
> 
> >> For slow delivery, check Mailman's 'smtp' log and Mailman's 
> qfiles/out/>> queue for signs of backlogging - i.e. anywhere from 
> some to lots of
> >> entries in qfiles/out; log entries of the form
> >>
> >> Nov 18 08:51:29 2008 (30746) <message id> smtp to LISTNAME for 217
> >> recips, completed in 4.734 seconds
> >>
> >> with fewer than tens or hundreds of messages per second and 
> timestamps>> equal to the previous entry's time stamp plus the 
> processing time of
> >> this entry.
> 
> 
> 
> >I am concerned 
> >that my machine is the culprit  but am not sure.  I have check the 
> >qfiles/in and qfiles/out and they are empty.
> 
> 
> OK, so the out/ queue is not backlogged all the time, but maybe it is
> sometimes. Maybe it's not at all in which case the delays are in
> outbound Postfix or beyond.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
> 
>