Hello Listers, I migrated to a VMware ESXI environment from an old P3/512 MB mailman server (RedHat/sendmail, mailman had been upgraded to 2.1.x (I think)). The new environment is CentoOS 6.2 Postfix Mailman 2.1.16rc2. Anyway the old server was a rock! The new mailman environment is a processor sponge (clearly not an all-natural hand collected sponge either) I will go over the entire process. After quite a bit of work with the migration (mostly because my learning curve with postfix) I got Mailman working. So we noticed right off the bat that Mailman was maxing the processor and filling memory and later I found that it was filling up the hard drive... So I had the ESXI admin add another processor and memory. Fixed the memory problem. Then all the sudden messages stopped going out to lists ( that was when I found out the drive was filling up). I found that the data directory was large, dare I say bloated beyond recognition. Looked like old held messages were filling up the drive (I think from my Postfix testing, maybe). I went in and ran "bin/discard data/heldmsg-mailman-1*" restarted mailman. Seemed to fix the problem. I also noticed there was a owner-bounces.mbox -rw-------. 1 mailman mailman 51198511 May 8 10:25 owner-bounces.mbox The drive filling issue appears to under control now. Further trouble shooting and a report that we were getting bounce reports saying that google was not allowing more message per smtp connection. Led me to add these lines to my mm_cfg.py file. SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 1 VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = Yes Now the processor is close to 100%. Messages are going out slow. I followed some trouble shooting guides to many to mention.
So I put it to you ohh masters of the Mailman universe.. Thanks for any help you can provide. Morgan Ecklund ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
