[Mailman-Users] mailman running very slow

[Richard Shetron]

Yes I've tried to research via google, etc.  I've run through the page at:
http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/4.78+Troubleshooting-+No+mail+going+out+to+lists+members

I'm running ubuntu with mailman 2.1.14 and things seem to be taking 
forever.  Until a few days ago things were running fine.  There have 
been no config/system changes.

One of the things I'm seeing is is the smtp log file:

Oct 23 13:42:13 2012 (19673) 
<7.0.1.0.0.20121016133607.0469b148 at marchreport.com> smtp to 
marchreport_daily_alert_ctc10 for 2 recips, completed in 168.029 seconds

That seem to be a very long time for processing a list.

Also mailing from a week ago are starting to come through, but I thought 
I'd removed all of them from both the mailq and from mailman.  I thought 
I new how to cancel/remove older mailings, but it seems not.  How do you 
cancel old mailings?  I've cleared the postfix queue and I thought I'd 
cleared the mailman qfiles.

I'm also occasionally getting the following error in the smtp-failure log:

Oct 24 06:00:01 2012 (29638) Low level smtp error: (4, 'Interrupted 
system call'), msgid:<7.0.1.0.0.20121016133607.0469b148 at marchreport.com>

We're using ubuntu with postfix.

python processes:

mailman   4576  0.0  0.0   9608  4792 ?        Ss   06:00   0:00 
/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s start
mailman   4577  0.0  0.0   9552  6456 ?        S    06:00   0:00 
/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=ArchRunner:0:1 -s
mailman   4578  0.0  0.1  17420 14696 ?        S    06:00   0:01 
/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=BounceRunner:0:1 -s
mailman   4579  0.0  0.0   9528  6436 ?        S    06:00   0:00 
/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=CommandRunner:0:1 -s
mailman   4580  0.0  0.0   9544  6444 ?        S    06:00   0:00 
/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=IncomingRunner:0:1 -s
mailman   4581  0.0  0.0   9520  6488 ?        S    06:00   0:00 
/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=NewsRunner:0:1 -s
mailman   4582  0.2  0.1  14628 11964 ?        S    06:00   0:25 
/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=OutgoingRunner:0:1 -s
mailman   4583  0.0  0.1  12332  9688 ?        S    06:00   0:00 
/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=VirginRunner:0:1 -s
mailman   4584  0.0  0.0   9512  6448 ?        S    06:00   0:00 
/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=RetryRunner:0:1 -s
mailman   4585  0.0  0.0   9728  6904 ?        S    06:00   0:08 
/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=MaildirRunner:0:1 -s


another error in smtp-failure:

Oct 24 09:37:18 2012 (4582) All recipients refused: {'mmm5000 at aol.com': 
(503, '5.5.1 Error: nested MAIL command')}, msgid: 
<7.0.1.0.0.20121016133607.0469b148 at marchreport.com>

The SMTP settings in mm_cfg.py:

MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman'
SMTPPORT = 587
#SMTPHOST = 'mail.marchreport.com'  Just did this change from name to ip
SMTPHOST = '71.244.124.123'

postfix listens on 587:
master.cf:587      inet  n       -       n       -       120       smtpd