[Mailman-Users] Mailman not sending out post

[Jacques Rall]

Hi all,

FTF: Solaris 2.6; Sendmail 8.8.8

The file $mailmandir/lists/mylist/next-digest does contain the messages
sent to the list.  Yesterday - out of the blue - I received a message I
had sent to the list a while ago.  I've replied to the message yesterday
and it has not been sent out to the list users; it's in the next-digest
file.

The following is in our error file:

### Error File Start Here

Oct 07 20:24:45 1998 contact_transport: Traceback (innermost last):
contact_transport:   File "/etc/mailman/scripts/contact_transport", line
52, in ?
contact_transport:      OutgoingQueue.processQueue()
contact_transport:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/OutgoingQueue.py", line
38, in processQueue
contact_transport:     
Utils.TrySMTPDelivery(recip,sender,text,full_fname)
contact_transport:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 204, in
TrySMTPDelivery
contact_transport:      OutgoingQueue.dequeueMessage(queue_entry)
contact_transport:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/OutgoingQueue.py", line
25, in dequeueMessage
contact_transport:      os.unlink(msg)
contact_transport: os . error :  (2, 'No such file or directory') 
Oct 07 20:24:45 1998 contact_transport: Traceback (innermost last):
contact_transport:   File "/etc/mailman/scripts/contact_transport", line
52, in ?
contact_transport:      OutgoingQueue.processQueue()
contact_transport:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/OutgoingQueue.py", line
38, in processQueue
contact_transport:     
Utils.TrySMTPDelivery(recip,sender,text,full_fname)
contact_transport:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 204, in
TrySMTPDelivery
contact_transport:      OutgoingQueue.dequeueMessage(queue_entry)
contact_transport:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/OutgoingQueue.py", line
25, in dequeueMessage
contact_transport:      os.unlink(msg)
contact_transport: os . error :  (2, 'No such file or directory') 
Oct 07 20:44:52 1998 post: Traceback (innermost last):
post:   File "/etc/mailman/scripts/post", line 69, in ?
post:      current_list.Post(msg)
post:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 799, in Post
post:      sender = msg.GetSender()
post:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 113, in GetSender
post:      return string.lower(mail_address)
post: TypeError :  read-only buffer, None 
Oct 07 20:45:13 1998 post: Traceback (innermost last):
post:   File "/etc/mailman/scripts/post", line 69, in ?
post:      current_list.Post(msg)
post:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 799, in Post
post:      sender = msg.GetSender()
post:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 113, in GetSender
post:      return string.lower(mail_address)
post: TypeError :  read-only buffer, None 
Oct 07 20:45:46 1998 post: Traceback (innermost last):
post:   File "/etc/mailman/scripts/post", line 69, in ?
post:      current_list.Post(msg)
post:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 799, in Post
post:      sender = msg.GetSender()
post:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 113, in GetSender
post:      return string.lower(mail_address)
post: TypeError :  read-only buffer, None 
Oct 08 12:00:02 1998 contact_transport: Traceback (innermost last):
contact_transport:   File "/etc/mailman/scripts/contact_transport", line
52, in ?
contact_transport:      OutgoingQueue.processQueue()
contact_transport:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/OutgoingQueue.py", line
38, in processQueue
contact_transport:     
Utils.TrySMTPDelivery(recip,sender,text,full_fname)
contact_transport:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 204, in
TrySMTPDelivery
contact_transport:      OutgoingQueue.dequeueMessage(queue_entry)
contact_transport:   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/OutgoingQueue.py", line
25, in dequeueMessage
contact_transport:      os.unlink(msg)
contact_transport: os . error :  (2, 'No such file or directory') 

### Error File Stop Here

Thanks,
Jacques


John Viega wrote:
> 
> Generally the first thing to do is to check the mail log.  It does
> sound like you're probably getting father than that, so the next thing
> to do would be to check the error log, in $mailmandir/logs/errors or
> something like that.  Let us know what you see, then give us info
> about your OS, etc...
> 
> John
> 
> On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 09:10:51PM +0200, Jacques Rall wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We've recently installed mailman here to evaluate it, but ran into a
> > brick wall:  mailman does not redistribute any post.
> >
> > It seems that mailman is receiving the post with no problems but it is
> > not sending it out to any of the subscribed users.
> >
> > We've run all the commands in the crontab to no avail.
> >
> > What shall we do?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Jacques
> >
> >
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