[Mailman-Users] qfiles directory

[Teo de Hesselle]

Dan Lowe wrote:
> 
> 
> Well, this is a snippet of your SMTP transaction between Mailman and
> Sendmail (localhost port 25).  I don't know what you know about SMTP, but I
> find it interesting that it seems to get a 450 response code back from
> Sendmail rather than a 250.  400-series errors are in the "temporary
> failure" category, which would imply that Sendmail is rejecting the mail,
> not outright, but on a temporary basis.  Thus, Mailman would keep them in
> the queue for later retry (rather than deleting them from the queue due to
> successful delivery, or returning an error, from final rejection).
> 

Thank you very much for pointing that out. It appears that sendmail was
rejecting email addresses outside our domain, for no great reason. In
any case I put a brand new config file in which was as simple as
possible, and now everyone is happy. The messages did take 14 hours or
so to flush completely though.

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Téo de Hesselle
Email Administrator

Information Technology Division
University of Technology, Sydney