On 02/08/2009, S.Tindall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 19:45 +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
>  > Karanbir Singh wrote:
>  > > On 08/01/2009 01:50 PM, Ned Slider wrote:
>  > >>> Got some issues with your lists mail server starting this morning -
>  > >>> from my mail logs...
>  > >
>  > > I think Dries is offline for a few days, so will attempt to investigate
>  > > this issue later today. Although, I dont have the mailman passwd etc,
>  > > only Dag and Dries do. But it should be possible to fix this on the cli
>  > > tools directly.
>  > >
>  > > one way to find out :)
>  > >
>  > If it is indeed just an issue with the account sending out monthly
>  > subscription/password reminders, the problem presumably won't occur
>  > again until next month so you have a month to fix it :)
>  >
>  > I guess the immediate issue you may have is your mail queue is now
>  > probably full of mail being temp rejected - guess those will time out
>  > and give up in 5 days or so.
>
>  Mailman caused the original problem by using a bad domain name in the
>  address when sending out monthly reminders, but the current dilemma is
>  at your mail server, which probably has a huge deferred queue.
>
>  message reject detail (from our mail server)
>  ---------------------
>   Sender address rejected: Domain not found (total: 17)
>     17   [email protected]
>
>  The easiest fix is to enter an A record for lists.vmhosting.org and then
>  our mail servers should accept the mail when the old TTL runs out.
>  Otherwise, just dump the deferred queue as most of us remember our
>  password. :-)
>
>  The mailman fix won't likely help with the current problem, but
>  explicitly defining DEFAULT_URL_HOST and DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST
>  in /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py will probably help next month. :-)

For the record, I'll mention that the last monthly reminder I received
for my RPMforge mailing lists subscriptions was February 2009 . . .

Alan.
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