On 8/27/06, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brad Knowles wrote:
>
> >At 12:31 AM -0400 2006-08-27, David Diskin wrote:
> >
> >> What is happening lately is that new posts are
> >> visible in the archives, but in general are not mailed out or may not
> >> be mailed out for several hours to several days. There are no
> >> errors in the error log. The members allowed to post have verizon
> >> dsl accounts. Is there an explanation for this behavior?
> >
> >This is either a problem with the MTA on the server, or the outbound
> >queue within Mailman. Either way, the normal suggestions is to
> >search the FAQ for "performance" and then follow the recommendations
> >there.
>
>
> The symptoms are those of a hoplessly backlogged 'out' queue in
> Mailman. If you have access to them, you can look at Mailman's
> qfiles/out/ directory, which will probably contain a large number of
> entries waiting to be processed, and Mailman's 'smtp' log. In the smtp
> log, you will probably see that the time stamp of each entry is equal
> to its processing time added to the timestamp of the previous entry
> (i.e., there is no 'quiet time' between entries), and the processing
> times may be much longer than those in the log from before 'lately'.
> If you can find a place in the log where processing times suddenly
> increase, that will pinpoint the time at which the MTA started taking
> longer to process smtp transactions, thus causing the backlog.
>
> --
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I have this problem as well. Mark's response describes my case. In my
smtp-failures file I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] src]# tail /var/log/mailman/smtp-failure
Aug 27 04:20:05 2006 (23140) delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with
code -1: (110, 'Connection timed out')
Aug 27 04:20:05 2006 (23140) delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with
code -1: (110, 'Connection timed out')
Aug 27 04:20:05 2006 (23140) delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed
with code -1: (110, 'Connection timed out')
Aug 27 04:20:05 2006 (23140) delivery to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with code -1: (110, 'Connection
timed out')
Aug 27 04:20:05 2006 (23140) delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with
code -1: please run connect() first
Aug 27 04:20:05 2006 (23140) delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed
with code -1: please run connect() first
Aug 27 04:23:22 2006 (23140) Low level smtp error: (110, 'Connection
timed out'), msgid:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aug 27 04:23:33 2006 (23140) delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed
with code -1: (110, 'Connection timed out')
Aug 27 04:26:53 2006 (23140) Low level smtp error: (110, 'Connection
timed out'), msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aug 27 04:26:57 2006 (23140) Low level smtp error: please run
connect() first, msgid:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I take it that the Low level smtp errors are comming from my MTA
(postfix). In my case the problem was intermittent untill about a week
ago when it became steady. I have posted to the postfix list but I
still have no understanding of who should be running connect().
[EMAIL PROTECTED] src]# tail /var/log/mailman/smtp
Aug 27 04:20:05 2006 (23140)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> smtp for 93
recips, completed in 189.377 seconds
Aug 27 04:23:33 2006 (23140)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> smtp for 1
recips, completed in 199.497 seconds
I get lots of entries arround (but not exactly) 189 seconds. I wonder
if this is some kind of timeout.
I also get in my error file:
Aug 27 04:16:54 2006 (23140) Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop
self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile
keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py", line 73, in _dispose
self._func(mlist, msg, msgdata)
File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 162, in process
conn.quit()
File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 89, in quit
self.__conn.quit()
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/smtplib.py", line 702, in quit
self.docmd("quit")
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/smtplib.py", line 358, in docmd
return self.getreply()
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/smtplib.py", line 332, in getreply
line = self.file.readline()
IOError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
Aug 27 04:16:55 2006 (23140) SHUNTING:
1156261104.130233+d719c44d4802cd25a866736a4dcd4b9725db557c
Is the reset by peer comming from the MTA or beyond the MTA?
Eric
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