[Mailman-Users] How to check mailman on successfully hand off the message?

[Adam McGreggor]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:00:13AM -0800, Hung Phan wrote:
> Hello, folks
> 
> We have about two dozens of lists set to confirm subscription. All  
> lists are working except one. 

Curious. What's different in that list's config, that isn't with the
others? Maybe dump the lists configs, and diff them?

> Somehow the confirmation email never get  
> to the users even though, the smtp log indicates that Mailman  
> dispatches a message for each subscription.
> 
> Jan 06 16:14:51 2010 (2305) 
> <mailman.0.1262823290.13100.chs_parents at mailman.server.address > smtp to 
> chs_parents for 1 recips, completed in 0.067 seconds

Obscuring (if that's what you've done) may not have been too helpful
there. If not, your hostname isn't the best choice.

> On the recipient side, the ISP could not find any trace of the  
> messages being delivered to their email server. They ask us to check  
> whether the messages were successfully hand-off. Beside from the smtp  
> log, any other log that may indicates the messages were successfully  
> sent out?
>
> Our Mailman is hosted on Fedora 10, Mailman 2.1.12, Exim 4.69-7

Your exim logs.

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