xp xp wrote:
Hello Mark, Could you please let me know how to access smtp-log?
The logs are on the Mailman host. Several 'packaged' Mailman installations put them in /var/log/mailman/. The default location for GNU Mailman is /usr/local/mailman/logs/.
To access these logs, you need shell or perhaps ftp access to the server. If yours is a 'hosted' Mailman, you may not be able to access the logs.
So the mailman will bounce if it can't send email to a valid email ID? how many attempts will it take before it quits? I saw the email in the archives, but I cannot see who got it. Is there a feature where mailman can show which users got an email? please help. drb
Mailman delivers mail via SMTP to an MTA, usually running on the same host. If an error occurs during SMTP to the MTA, it will be logged in Mailman's smtp-failure log. If it is a fatal (5xx status) error, it is treated as a hard bounce. If it is retryable (4xx status), Mailman will retry at 15 minute intervals for 5 days.
Most errors occurring during SMTP to the outgoing MTA are due to some kind of configuration problem between Mailman and the MTA. You have to see the log messages or the bounce notices to see what the errors are.
If Mailman and the MTA are configured appropriately, almost all bounces are returned by the MTA after acceptance of the original message. In this case, retries if any will be done by the MTA. Again, you need to see the bounce messages to see why the mail is undeliverable.
In Mailman, set bounce_processing to Yes; set bounce_notify_owner_on_disable to Yes, and temporarily at least, set bounce_score_threshold to 1.0. Then when mail to a member bounces, the member's delivery will be disabled immediately and the list owner will receive a notice (assuming it doesn't bounce too) containg the original bounce message which will help you see the problem.
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