Thanks, I'll keep this information around for future reference! In the meantime, the queue was automatically retried and the changes I made to postfix configuration were correct, so the mail was delivered just fine!
(Mailman seems to deliver outgoing list messages to the local SMTP server via "::1". I was expecting 127.0.0.1. I wasn't expecting ipv6! ["Nobody expects ipv6!"]) :) /raj > On Aug 6, 2018, at 9:16 PM, Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/06/2018 07:22 PM, Richard Johnson wrote: >> I'm trying to find some documentation on how to force my retry >> ("RetryRunner") queue to try delivery again. I'll keep searching but >> thought I'd toss a quick note here as well. Anyone? > > > Prior to Mailman 2.1.26, it processes the queue, sleeps for 15 minutes > and repeats. There has always been a DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT setting that > defaulted to 1 hour, but prior to 2.1.26, it was ineffective. The > current doc for that setting in Defaults.py is > >> # How long should we wait before we retry a temporary delivery failure? >> # Because RetryRunner sleeps for 15 minutes between processes of its queue, >> # whatever is put here is effectively rounded up to the next integer multiple >> # of 15 minutes. >> DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT = hours(1) > > The way this works is when a delivery fails for a temp failure, the > current time + DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT is placed in the message's metadata > and the message won't be retried before that time. > > If your Mailman is pre 2.1.26, or if DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT has been set to > a very low value, you can restart RetryRunner by sending it SIGINT. That > should wake it up to process its queue. > > -- > 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] > 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/raj%40mischievous.us ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] 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
