Pierre Igot wrote: > >I am running Mailman on an Xserve running Mac OS X Server 10.3.9. The >version of Mailman is the one included with Mac OS X Server 10.3.9. >(It's 2.1.2.)
See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.021.htp> >I've just started experimenting with mailing lists on this server >using Mailman. Things worked fine until I actually got to the stage >of mass-subscribing a series of nearly 500 email addresses. > >I used the web-based Mailman interface to submit the list of 500 >email addresses for new subscribers, through the "Mass Subscription" >web form. I just copied the list of email addresses (separated by >return chars) from a text editor and pasted it in the field and >submitted. My mistake (I think) was that I submitted the entire list >of 500 email addresses at once. Initially it SEEMED to work, i.e. I >got a confirmation page listing all the subscribers that had been >added to the list. Yes, it worked. The hangup was probably because of trying to send notifications. >But then I became unable to access the admin page for the list >altogether. The server would simply not respond. I could still access >other parts of the web-based Mailman interface, but not the pages for >this particular list. > >After a bit of on-line research, I discovered that the problem was >probably due to "locks" in the > >/var/mailman/locks/ > >folder. Indeed, when I looked inside that folder, I found a whole >series of files named: > >enseignants.lock >enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.421.1 >enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7150.0 >enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7166.0 >enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7216.0 >enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7228.0 >enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7286.0 >enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7470.0 >enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7696.0 >enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7819.0 >enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7918.0 > >("www.cprp.ca" is my server and "enseignants" is the name of the list) Yes, the problem was these locks. >The instructions for dealing with this were not exactly clear, so I >just removed all these files so that the "locks" folder was empty. >After that, I was able to access the list's admin pages again. So I >thought everything was good. > >Then I tried to send a message to my subscribers. (It's a receive- >only list, so I'll be the only one sending messages.) However, the >message that I sent never got sent to the mailing list's subscribers. > >After more online research, I found out that my message was actually >stuck inside the > >/var/mailman/qfiles/in/ > >folder. I also found that I could force Mailman to send the message >by using the command: > >/usr/share/mailman/bin/qrunner -r All So the mailmanctl daemon and the qrunners aren't running unless you start the qrunners manually as above, but this isn't the way to do it. If you had done /usr/share/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start you wouldn't have had to kill the qrunners. >That worked and the message got sent out to the list (although I then >had to control-C the process to return to the prompt). > >But I find that this now happens every time I want to send a message. >The message never gets sent automatically as expected. Instead, it >gets stuck in that /qfiles/in/ folder and I have to run the qrunner - >r All command to get it sent. > >This never happened with this list before I added the 500 subscribers >and had to fiddle with the /locks/ folder. Prior to that, when I was >still in the stage of testing the mailing list with only a handful of >test subscribers, everything worked fine and the messages would get >sent automatically. I think in Mac OSX server, Mailman is installed as a service and the service runs mailmanctl. Somehow you have stopped the service and you need to restart it. >My suspicion is that the problem is due to what I did in the /locks/ >folder, that maybe I wasn't supposed to remove all the files. (I have >kept them on a local disk in case I need to move them back to that >folder.) I doubt that removing the locks had anything to do with it, but you might check ALL of Mailman's log files to see what kinds of errors and other conditions occurred. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
