Kyle McMartin wrote: > >I'm administrating a few lists with large numbers of subscribers (>700),
This is not a particularly large number for Mailman. >and for some reason, have been seeing weird behaviour from mailman. > >We're using Debian testing, Mailman 2.1.5, and Postfix 2.1.5. > >When attempting to send a message to one of these lists, I get crap >in the smtp-failure logs: > >Mar 09 03:48:22 2005 (32326) delivery to <xxx>@engsoc.org failed with code -1: >Server not connected > >The message seems to get through to about 20 of the recipients, before >it barfs like this. > >Searching around for this message, I found the suggestion of using >MTA='Postfix' This only affects how aliases are handled for newly created and deleted lists. >and explicitly setting the mail server address in >/etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py. This probably only affects whether it works at all for even one messaage. >Unfortunately, this does not seem to help and >the messages persist. > >I've tried explicitly setting SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION on a hunch >but unfortunately that did not help either. :( It appears that the MTA (your Postfix) is disconnecting you after a certain number of recipients or transactions or ? Did you try setting SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION to 1? Did you try setting SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to some small number? Have you tried searching the FAQ for 'performance', 'tuning' or 'postfix'? Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py -- 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
