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. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
