Sigh... OK, thank you all for the help. I think I understand now! My theory: my **original** problem was a large HTML message gunking up the out box. Having cleaned that out, it sounds like I then proceeded to trash an afternoon's worth of messages by trying to flush the queue incorrectly. Fortunately these are all low-volume lists and the messages *did* reach the list archives. But still, embarassing. But it does explain why none of the troubleshooting steps in the FAQ revealed any problems. I'm not clear why new messages failed to go out right away, but possibly with all the restarts and such I made some temporary error with the qrunner processes or some other such thing. However it happened, mail is now flowing smoothly.
Can someone point me to a detailed explanation of the path a message takes from the time it is first forwarded to mailman, to the time when it is sent out to the MTA for delivery? Some time elapses there, and I'd like to understand in detail what's going on. thank you all for all your help. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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
