Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with max_num_recipients

2011-06-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/3/2011 10:45 AM, Glenn Sieb wrote: > > I have a list where, as a rule, we don't allow CCs to other > people/lists. So we set max_num_recipients to 2. [...] > Now, my question would be.. *why* would a *blank* CC: line trip this > flag? It just strikes me as kind of odd. We get the values of

[Mailman-Users] Problem with max_num_recipients

2011-06-03 Thread Glenn Sieb
Hullo! I am running 2.1.12 on FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. I have a list where, as a rule, we don't allow CCs to other people/lists. So we set max_num_recipients to 2. Now, we have a user (on @excite.com) who sends email to the list that has: Subject: Testing From: "User Name" Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 0

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 6/3/2011 9:10 AM, Khalil Abbas wrote: I don't want to use the throttling patch as it's not stable and not tested before .. so I have 2 ways, either rebooting the servers like I'm doing now, or splitting the lists into smaller ones and send to bunch of small lists every our .. what do u think

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-03 Thread Khalil Abbas
well it was your advise on a previous post to set the SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to 5 in order to let hotmail and yahoo and others accept mail coming from my lists.. if you remember the smtp_max_rcpts was 500 and thousands of subscribers used to bounce back because Hotmail rejected them.. after setting it t

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-03 Thread Steff Watkins
> The servers are all vps'es with 256 ram.. I'm assuming you meant 256 Megs RAM.. to which I say "Luxury" :) > and the lists are as big as 33,000 > subscribers per list, 3 lists per vps.. it's one big mailing > list for a TV station and newspaper.. only one message (newsletter) is sent >

Re: [Mailman-Users] a handful of issues

2011-06-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/11 10:48 AM, Patrick Cox wrote: > 1. I've just received an email from a list member who says about 75% of > posts from our list appear in her email without any texts! She received a > subject line and can see the poster's name, but the email is empty! She uses > Mail for Mac If others see

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 6/3/2011 4:56 AM, Khalil Abbas wrote: The servers are all vps'es with 256 ram.. vps? If you mean they're vertual servers, then at least give them more RAM! (Have you watched the processes with top while running? Where are the -actual- bottlenecks?) my question is, is this a good solutio

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/3/11 4:56 AM, Khalil Abbas wrote: > > SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to only 5 in mailman resulted in a huge number of > messages generated by mailman that halts the servers, that's why I every > hour stop mailman then stop postfix then reboot the servers to free up > the memory and continue distributing th

[Mailman-Users] a handful of issues

2011-06-03 Thread Patrick Cox
1. I've just received an email from a list member who says about 75% of posts from our list appear in her email without any texts! She received a subject line and can see the poster's name, but the email is empty! She uses Mail for Mac 2. Several times list members have simply not received message

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-03 Thread Khalil Abbas
The servers are all vps'es with 256 ram.. and the lists are as big as 33,000 subscribers per list, 3 lists per vps.. it's one big mailing list for a TV station and newspaper.. only one message (newsletter) is sent out every day to the subscribers.. but setting: SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to only 5 in mai