Does outbound email work for other applications?

Does something like

mail -s 'Test Email' [email protected]
< /opt/mailman/core/var/logs/smtp.log

work?

On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 9:10 AM Stefan Bauer via Mailman-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Users,
>
> I'm debugging since several days a mailman3 installation and can not get
> mailman to deliver mails to list members.
>
> Mailman logs Cannot connect to SMTP server, however the server is
> listening, but i see no connection attempts.
>
> In queue/out, i see changing files all the time:
>
> drwxrwx---    2 mailman  nogroup     4.0K Jun  4 13:04 .
> drwxr-xr-x   15 mailman  nogroup     4.0K Jun  4 08:22 ..
> -rw-rw----    1 mailman  nogroup     6.1K Jun  4 12:22
> 1780575734.9281623+0ad5f564c9fc5f27750a09b948f3480d9047cbaa.pck.tmp
> -rw-rw----    1 mailman  nogroup     6.1K Jun  4 13:04
> 1780578250.2070453+752ca17af5c64af7aab5f0fc61ac2ea28b091825.bak
> 038b90c74d8d:/opt/mailman/var/queue/out# ls -alh
> total 24K
> drwxrwx---    2 mailman  nogroup     4.0K Jun  4 13:04 .
> drwxr-xr-x   15 mailman  nogroup     4.0K Jun  4 08:22 ..
> -rw-rw----    1 mailman  nogroup     6.1K Jun  4 12:22
> 1780575734.9281623+0ad5f564c9fc5f27750a09b948f3480d9047cbaa.pck.tmp
> -rw-rw----    1 mailman  nogroup     6.1K Jun  4 13:04
> 1780578250.7552953+6350a013583657c317c0a64b9cf2039dca645974.bak
> 038b90c74d8d:/opt/mailman/var/queue/out#
>
> SMTP/DEBUG-Log is flooded with over and over same attempts:
>
> ==> /opt/mailman/core/var/logs/smtp.log <==
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (26) Using agent: <mailman.mta.deliver.Deliver object
> at 0x79ed98555310>
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (26) IndividualDelivery to: [email protected]
>
> ==> /opt/mailman/core/var/logs/debug.log <==
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (31) [VirginRunner] starting oneloop
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (31) [VirginRunner] ending oneloop: 0
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (26) [OutgoingRunner] finishing filebase:
> 1780578286.711373+091038a49a00758fdd2ba5265714e2fa31ea4843
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (26) [OutgoingRunner] doing periodic
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (26) [OutgoingRunner] committing transaction
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (26) [OutgoingRunner] checking short circuit
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (26) [OutgoingRunner] ending oneloop: 1
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (26) [OutgoingRunner] starting oneloop
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (26) [OutgoingRunner] processing filebase:
> 1780578286.7329357+2ec378350ee99307adc287fc8727fb9120a385d3
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (26) [OutgoingRunner] processing onefile
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (26) [outgoing] <function deliver at 0x79ed98b85d00>:
> <gxZS.-LyKCSHn9UWsyVepCakA9g@flTQyy2_BUC0KFtMliiieCkabFXP1SdNnP1xIyNQp-k.xz
> >
>
> ==> /opt/mailman/core/var/logs/smtp.log <==
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (26) Using agent: <mailman.mta.deliver.Deliver object
> at 0x79ed98a43bf0>
> Jun 04 13:04:46 2026 (26) IndividualDelivery to: [email protected]
>
> If i restart the docker-core container, i see a single time the error
> "Cannot connect to SMTP server 172.17.0.1 on port 587".
>
> my config:
>
> [runner.retry]
> sleep_time: 10s
>
> [webservice]
> hostname: 172.18.0.2
> port: 8001
> admin_user: restadmin
> admin_pass: restpass
> configuration: /etc/gunicorn.cfg
>
> [mta]
> incoming: mailman.mta.postfix.LMTP
> outgoing: mailman.mta.deliver.deliver
> lmtp_host: 172.18.0.2
> lmtp_port: 8024
> smtp_host: 172.17.0.1
> smtp_port: 587
> smtp_user:
> smtp_pass:
> smtp_secure_mode: starttls
> smtp_verify_hostname: false
> smtp_verify_cert: false
> configuration: /etc/postfix-mailman.cfg
>
> [logging.smtp]
> level: debug
>
> [logging.error]
> level: debug
>
> [logging.debug]
> level: debug
>
> [archiver.mail_archive]
> enable: no
> configuration: /opt/mailman/mail_archive_dummy.cfg
> [archiver.hyperkitty]
> class: mailman_hyperkitty.Archiver
> enable: yes
> configuration: /etc/mailman-hyperkitty.cfg
>
>
> Any helps is greatly appreciated.
>
> thank you.
>
> Stefan
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