bijayant kumar wrote: > >I am facing very strange situation. I am using Mailman on centos machine. It >was running fine from few months. Suddenly my users complaints that they are >not receiving mails on the list. I just restarted the mailman service, and >suddenly they received 1 months old mails. I did not understand the reason. >Why the mails has not been delivered earlier though mailman service was >running. Why the mails stucked? Now how to tackle this situation, should i >have to restart mailman once daily?
See <http://wiki.list.org/x/A4E9> for info on troubleshooting no mail delivery. >One more problem i am facing. Whenever i am restarting mailman i am getting >100 mails From default list "Mailman" stating >Mailman post requires approval > >Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailman /var/mailman/cron/gate_news >Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list > >/bin/sh: line 1: mailman: command not found Your mailman crontab is not in the correct format. You may have two crontabs, one of which is working and one of which is not. You have a 'system' mailman crontab which is intended to be installed in /etc/cron.d/mailman, and it is installed (probably by crontab -u mailman) in /var/spool/cron/mailman. The two crontabs have different formats. The system crontab has an extra field for the effective user. When you install it as a user crontab, that field (containing mailman) is taken as the command. It fails, and cron mails the failure to 'mailman' which is the post by non-member to your mailman list. gate_news is run every 5 minutes, so you get one every 5 minutes. If you have /etc/cron.d/mailman installed, just remove /var/spool/cron/mailman, either rm /var/spool/cron/mailman or crontab -u mailman -r If you don't have /etc/cron.d/mailman installed then just mv /var/spool/cron/mailman /etc/cron.d/mailman >I have turned off the moderation bit and deleted all these mails also. But >whenever i am restarting the mailman service, i am getting 100 of such mails. >How to avoid getting these mails. Can i delete these notifications. >Please help me, i am in very tough situation. Fixing the crontab issue will eliminate those notices, but you still have the problem of why mail is not delivered until you restart. See <http://wiki.list.org/x/A4E9>. -- 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
