[Mailman-Users] unclaimed action of mailman

[Mark Sapiro]

Masaharu Kawada wrote:
>
>I have a question about what mailman does when the following
>log appears into /var/log/maillog.
>
>---/var/log/maillog---
>Feb 15 12:00:04 xxx postfix/pickup[6279]: 244811C805C: uid=41 from=<mailman>
>Feb 15 12:00:04 xxx postfix/cleanup[21529]: 244811C805C:
>message-id=<20100215030004.244811C805C at example.com>
>Feb 15 12:00:04 xxx postfix/qmgr[20068]: 244811C805C:
>from=<mailman at example.com>, size=1728, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>Feb 15 12:00:04 xxx postfix/local[21232]: 244811C805C:
>to=<mailman at example.com>, orig_to=<mailman>, relay=local, delay=0.17,
>delays=0.05/0/0/0.12, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command:
>/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman)


A post is delivered to the list named 'mailman'.


>At the moment the above messages logged, nothing is operated
>(no mail send to mailman at example.com from mailman at example.com manually),
>however, this message happens at the almost same time every noon
>as follows.
>
>
>---/var/log/mailman/vette---
>Feb 15 12:00:04 2010 (2129) Mailman post from root at rexample.com held,
>message-id=<20100215030004.244811C805C at example.com>: Post by non-member
>to a members-only list


And that post is held because it is from a non-list-member and the list
is configured to hold non-member posts.

Go to the admindb interface for the 'mailman' list and see what the
posts are.

They are undoubtedly notifications of a cron error from
cron/senddigests caused be the same issue as as discussed in the
thread at
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2010-March/068962.html>.

If no one knows the admin or moderator password to log in to the
'mailman' admindb interface, see the FAQ at
<http://wiki.list.org/x/T4A9>.

Note that the 'mailman' list should be configured to accept non-member
posts for this and other reasons, or at least, the mailman crontab
should have a MAILTO= directive to direct error output to a person.

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