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[Jon Carnes]

Are you out of disk space?

On Thursday 20 December 2001 00:14, Michael B. Weiner wrote:
> THANK you jon, some very good advice indeed. Here are some snippets from
> /var/mailman/logs/post:
>
> Dec 20 00:01:07 2001 (29336) post to test-list from
> root at userfriendly.net, size=153, 2 failures
> Dec 20 00:01:07 2001 (29336) post to test-list from mweiner at ag.com,
> size=870, 2 failures
> Dec 20 00:01:08 2001 (29336) post to test-list from
> test-list-admin at userfriendly.net, size=374, 1 failures
> Dec 20 00:01:08 2001 (29336) post to test-list from
> test-list-admin at userfriendly.net, size=307, 1 failures
> Dec 20 00:01:08 2001 (29336) post to test-list from mweiner at ag.com,
> size=832, 2 failures
> Dec 20 00:01:08 2001 (29336) post to test-list from
> test-list-admin at userfriendly.net, size=396, 1 failures
>
> /var/mailman/logs/smtp:
> Dec 20 00:03:03 2001 (29414) All recipients refused: (111, 'Connection
> refused')
> Dec 20 00:03:03 2001 (29414) All recipients refused: (111, 'Connection
> refused')
> Dec 20 00:03:03 2001 (29414) smtp for 2 recips, completed in 0.011
> seconds Dec 20 00:03:03 2001 (29414) All recipients refused: (111,
> 'Connection refused')
> Dec 20 00:03:03 2001 (29414) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.071
> seconds
>
> /var/mailman/logs/smtp-failure:
> Dec 20 00:04:03 2001 (29429) -1 test-list-admin at userfriendly.net (ignore)
> Dec 20 00:04:03 2001 (29429) -1 hunter at userfriendly.net (ignore)
> Dec 20 00:04:03 2001 (29429) -1 hunter at userfriendly.net (ignore)
> Dec 20 00:04:03 2001 (29429) -1 mweiner at ag.com (ignore)
> Dec 20 00:04:03 2001 (29429) -1 test-list-admin at userfriendly.net (ignore)
>
> as for the mta and smrsh, here is what i found in /etc/smrsh:
>    0 lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Aug  4 09:31 slocal ->
> /usr/lib/nmh/slocal*
>    0 lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           25 Dec 18 21:27 wrapper ->
> /var/mailman/mail/wrapper*
>
> and i checked and the local entries were indeed in /etc/mail/access
>
>  but found this in the /etc/sendmail.cf
> Mprog,          P=/usr/sbin/smrsh,
>
> Any further ideas or suggestions?
>
> Regards
> --
>
> Jon Carnes wrote:
> >We really need to document this and add it to the FAQ... if it's not
> > already there.
> >
> >Check the mailman logs ~mailman/logs/... and see what they indicate. 
> > It's likely one of two problems:
> >
> >The first is that the gid for your email wasn't correctly compiled
> >into the wrapper when you installed mailman.  The wrapper will
> >print an error in the log files (~mailman/logs/...) telling you that it
> >got the wrong gid.  This is a security measure and easy to fix,
> >but you have to re-install and specify the proper gid used by your
> >MTA (sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim, etc...)
> >
> >The second and more insidious problem is local routing.  This is
> >all inside the MTA.  You will need to make sure that localhost is
> >allowed to route via your MTA.  Also Postfix has a few old
> >releases in which delivery via localhost is broken and cannot be
> >turned on.  If you have Postfix, you must upgrade (or downgrade...
> >but who would do that!).  Some MTA's such as Sendmail use
> >SMRSH and won't let the wrapper be used by the MTA until the
> >wrapper is properly identified to SMRSH.
> >
> >For Sendmail, check out /etc/mail/access and make sure that you
> >have entries similar to the following in there for "localhost":
> >  localhost.localdomain           RELAY
> >  localhost                       RELAY
> >  127.0.0.1                       RELAY
> >
> >Hope this helps,
> >
> >Jon Carnes