[Mailman-Users] List Serve Has Stopped Working

[Mark Sapiro]

On 7/29/19 5:45 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 7/29/19 9:59 AM, Mary Pearson via Mailman-Users wrote:
>> I have had Mailman (current version v 2.1.27) List Serve working perfectly on my website for several years.
> 
> 
> Please see <https://wiki.list.org/DOC/Mailman%20is%20not%20Listserv>.
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>>  On July 5, I made some changes to my DNS settings to satisfy cPanel's Email Deliverability standards, and since then my List Serve no longer works.  I don't know if that was the cause, or if I have done something else to break it, and DNS records were just a coincidence.
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>> I now have my main domain of ChristianGays.com <http://christiangays.com/> and sub-domain of mail.christiangays.com <http://mail.christiangays.com/> complying with DKIM and SPF records.  All is good now from that aspect, but the List Serve still doesn't work.
>>
>> When I say it does not work, I can send and receive using my mary at christiangays.com <mailto:mary at christiangays.com> email address, but if I use any of my other email addresses, or if another member writes, the list serve does not forward to the group.
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>> The sent emails can be found in the Archives, but they don't come through to our inboxes.
> 
> So there seems to be some issue with outgoing mail delivery from Mailman
> to external addresses. The mail reaches Mailman because it is archived.
> Is mail from others delivered to mary at christiangays.com?
> 
> 
>> Log Errors (which I don't understand) show:
>>
>> [29-Jul-2019 16:45:48 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; wp_mail_from has a deprecated constructor in /home/mary/public_html/mary-content/plugins/change-wp-mail-from-details/change-mail-from.php on line 105
>> [29-Jul-2019 12:45:48 America/Toronto] PHP Deprecated:  Function create_function() is deprecated in /home/mary/public_html/mary-content/themes/generatepress_child/functions.php on line 249
>> [29-Jul-2019 12:45:48 America/Toronto] PHP Warning:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent in /home/mary/public_html/mary-content/plugins/simple-membership/classes/class.swpm-init-time-tasks.php on line 20
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> 
> These PHP errors are irrelevant. They may have something to do with
> Wordpress?? The logs you want to look at are the MTA (probably Exim in
> cPanel) logs and Mailman's logs (in
> /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/logs in standard cPanel).
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> 
>> I did not set this up.  I know nothing of Python or Mailman, so although I have read your FAQ's, I am really not qualified to implement the instructions.  
> 
> 
> Does this mean you've seen
> <https://wiki.list.org/DOC/Mailman%20and%20CPanel> and
> <https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.78%20Troubleshooting-%20No%20mail%20going%20out%20to%20lists%20members>?
> 
> 
>> I hired someone years ago to set this List Serve up for me, but now he is not available.  I have since hired two other people, one who specializes in Python to try to figure it out, and neither of them could find the problem.
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>> Since two coders have not been able to fix it, I doubt that giving me instructions of what to look for would help.
>>
>> I could hire someone else via Freelancer again, but believe it may just be more of a waste of time.  I would rather have someone who knows Mailman well, as I assume you all do.  I am willing to pay someone to look at the back end of my site to get this working again.  Is that possible?
> 
> 
> My two rules are "I don't work for money." and "I don't touch your
> server." and in any case, I'm going to be unavailable for even what
> support I normally provide via this list for the next 6 weeks.
> 
> I hope someone else on this list can help you.
> 
> There's also <https://wiki.list.org/COM/Mailman%20consulting%20services>.
> 


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