[Mailman-Users] Moved mailman to new server

[Steve Pirk]

Noah,

Check to make sure you added the "crontab" entries on the new
server. They are listed by running crontab -l as the user mailman.

Steve
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Noah Cantor wrote:

> i'm positive the email is going through the new machine, cause i checked the
> queue on the new machine. when i first moved everything, i cleared the queue,
> so there wouldn't be any ambiguity. all of the aliases are set up correctly on
> the new machine. 
> as far as i know, mailman is still running on the old machine... i never
> turned it off, in any case.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:04:28AM -0800, JC Dill wrote:
> > On 10:48 AM 3/30/01, Noah Cantor wrote:
> >  >Hi all.
> >  >
> >  >Last night i moved my mailman files from one server to another. I made a tar
> >  >of all the old files, did an scp to the new machine, untarred it, added the
> >  >appropriate users (mailman, apache) with the same uid and gids that they had
> >  >previously. whe i run check_list <listname> it tells me that the list is set
> >  >up correctly, and that the database is working. however, when i send mail to
> >  >that list, it gets stuck in the mailman queue,
> > 
> > Is mailman still running on the old machine?  Are you SURE the email you 
> > are sending is going to (and being returned by) the new machine?  Did you 
> > look at the logs of the new machine to see the mail stuck in the queue, and 
> > then bounced back?
> > 
> >   and eventually bounces back to
> >  >me telling me that the list doesn't exist. eventually i bandaided the problem
> >  >by NFS mounting the mailman directory onto the machine that it used to 
> > run on,
> >  >which solved the problem, but slowed down the mailing lists a considerable
> >  >amount, because now they have to go across an NFS mounted drive. what i was
> >  >wondering is if anybody has seen this before and has some idea of what i need
> >  >to do to get mailman working on the new server. personally, i suspect that
> >  >there's something wrong with the way apache is set up, but i can't find
> >  >anything wrong with it.
> >  >
> >  >Thanks,
> >  >
> >  >Noah
> >  >
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