[Mailman-Users] Mailman DOA

[Robert Glover]

I'm new to this list and to Mailman... I'm converting from Majordomo.

I dug through the list archives looking for anything similar to my problem,
but nothing definitive.  It's really odd, and it's happening on two
machines.  One machine is running FreeBSD 3.3-Current, the other is running
FreeBSD 4.1-Release.  Both are running whatever versions of sendmail they
came with.

I installed Python 2.0, and then Mailman 2.0.1 according to the
instructions.  I created the lists and added people to them using the web
interface.  I initially did this one list at a time, testing each list to
ensure that it was getting email.

After about five or six lists, I stopped testing and just continued creating
lists and adding users.  When I was done with all of the lists (about two
dozen), I sent an announcement to all of the lists to tell everybody about
the new software.  But I never saw it appear.

Then I started digging around in the logs.  Here's what I found:

In the 'posts' log:

Feb 19 20:36:42 2001 (81288) post to ba-f-body from blkhawk303 at hotmail.com,
size=1017, 2 failures
Feb 19 20:42:03 2001 (81288) post to ba-f-body from beccruice at aol.com,
size=1476, 2 failures
Feb 19 20:48:21 2001 (81504) post to ba-f-body from rob at f-body.org,
size=590, 2 failures


In the 'smtp' log:

Feb 19 20:36:42 2001 (81288) smtp for 2 recips, completed in 320.628 seconds
Feb 19 20:42:03 2001 (81288) smtp for 2 recips, completed in 320.728 seconds
Feb 19 20:48:21 2001 (81504) smtp for 2 recips, completed in 320.716 seconds


In the 'smtp-failures' log:

Feb 19 20:42:03 2001 (81288) 450 jhliao at qpt.com (<jhliao at qpt.com>... Can not
check MX records for recipient host qpt.com)
Feb 19 20:42:03 2001 (81288) 450 rickt at lightside.com
(<rickt at lightside.com>... Can not check MX records for recipient host
lightside.com)
Feb 19 20:48:21 2001 (81504) 450 jhliao at qpt.com (<jhliao at qpt.com>... Can not
check MX records for recipient host qpt.com)
Feb 19 20:48:21 2001 (81504) 450 rickt at lightside.com
(<rickt at lightside.com>... Can not check MX records for recipient host
lightside.com)


In the 'errors' log:

Feb 16 18:13:21 2001 qrunner(22408): Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 16 18:13:21 2001 qrunner(22408):   File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner",
line 283, in ?
Feb 16 18:13:21 2001 qrunner(22408):      kids = main(lock)
Feb 16 18:13:21 2001 qrunner(22408):   File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner",
line 195, in main
Feb 16 18:13:21 2001 qrunner(22408):      lock.refresh()
Feb 16 18:13:21 2001 qrunner(22408):   File
"/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 204, in refresh
Feb 16 18:13:21 2001 qrunner(22408):      raise NotLockedError
Feb 16 18:13:21 2001 qrunner(22408): Mailman.LockFile . NotLockedError



I went into sendmail.cf and set the O DeliveryMode line to "defer" from
"background" as suggested in one of the FAQ pages, but that hasn't helped
anything.  I've been unable to find any other way to shut off reverse
lookups in sendmail.  I'm not even certain that sendmail is the problem.

At this point, I'm completely lost.  I've read everything I could find on
lists.org and saw no mention of any problems like this.  For SOME reason,
ALL messages are failing, even when I go back to only a single list.  I must
have done something to offend Mailman.

Ideas?  Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Rob