[Mailman-Users] no mail, no errors

Jason Wehmhoener webmaster at saturn.deanza.fhda.edu
Fri Apr 6 20:29:49 CEST 2001


> Type mailq and see if messages are queued up for delivery. If they
> are, the problem may be that you have not inserted the crontab entries
> for the user mailman.

Here's the mailq output

                Mail Queue (1 request)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
KAA13743  (no control file)

Here's the output from crontab -l

# At 5PM every day, mail reminders to admins as to pending requests
0 17 * * * /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/checkdbs
#
# Noon, mail digests for lists that do periodic as well as threshhold
delivery.
0 12 * * * /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/senddigests
#
# 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders.
0 5 1 * * /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/mailpasswds
#
# Every 5 mins, try to gate news to mail.  You can comment this one out
# if you don't want to allow gating, or don't have any going on right now,
# or want to exclusively use a callback strategy instead of polling.
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/python -S
/home/mailman/cron/gate_news
#
# At 3:27am every night, regenerate the gzip'd archive file.  Only
# turn this on if the internal archiver is used and
# GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES is false in mm_cfg.py
27 3 * * * /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip
#
# Retry failed deliveries once per minute.
* * * * * /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner

> > I just installed mailman and it seems to work, the web interface works
> > great, /var/logs/maillog looks great, /home/mailman/logs/error
> is empty, I
> > can see posts in /home/mailman/logs/posts. But no mail is
> recieved by the
> > list subscribers!
> >
> > OS:		Yellow Dog Linux 1.2
> > Sendmail: 	sendmail-8.9.3-17
> > Mailman:	Mailman 2.0.3
> > Python:	Python 1.5.2





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