[Mailman-Users] Mailman won't send mail

[Jon Carnes]

Wow, great problem report... It looks to me like your Postfix is
delivering the mail to Mailman, Mailmanctl is running and trying to drop
the mail out to the specified SMTPHOST

# SMTP host and port, when DELIVERY_MODULE is 'SMTPDirect'.  
# Make sure the
# host exists and is resolvable (i.e., if it's the 
# default of "localhost" be
# sure there's a localhost entry in your /etc/hosts file!)
SMTPHOST = 'localhost'

In your case the SMTPHOST is ns1.tcbug.org.  Does this resolve?  Is
Postfix setup to accept mail from this IP address?

I would switch back to using SMTPHOST = 'localhost' and then set that to
127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts file, then setup Postfix to relay any local
posts from 127.0.0.1

It sounds like the problem is in Postfix.  It looks like it is not
allowing relay from the locally running Mailman application.  Check out
the error and warning logs for Postfix.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 13:36, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> I'm having an issue getting Mailman to send mail out to my mailing 
> list.  I've searched Google extensively, read the Mailman FAQ, and 
> can't seem to get an answer to my problem.  Sorry for the length of
> this email, but I'm going to try and be as complete as possible the
> first time around.
> 
> According to the FAQ the following information should be listed:
> 
> Mailman version - 2.1.3
> How it was installed - FreeBSD ports system
> Version of OS - FreeBSD 5.2-BETA
> The MTA - Postfix 2.0.16,1
> 
> I've gone through the troubleshooting tips in the FAQ section 3.14
> 
> Brief Description of the Problem: Emails sent to my mailing list are
> silently absorbed by the mailman system.  They don't bounce, they 
> just appear to disappear.
> 
> Mailman Configuration: Here's a copy of my mm_cfg.py
> 
> # Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line.
> 
> DEFAULT_URL             = 'http://tcbug.org/cgi-bin/mailman'
> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST      = 'tcbug.org'
> DEFAULT_URL_HOST        = 'tcbug.org'
> MAILMAN_OWNER           = 'mailman-owner@%s' % DEFAULT_HOST_NAME
> SMTPHOST                = 'ns1.tcbug.org'
> 
> 
> Logs:  Here is the output of several of the logs on the system:
> 
> /var/log/maillog contains the following when I try to send a mail:
> 
> Dec  5 17:54:06 ns1 postfix/local[38668]: 3786EBA0A: 
> to=<tcbug at tcbug.org>, relay=local, delay=6, status=sent 
> ("|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post tcbug")
> 
> /usr/local/mailman/logs/error is empty
> 
> /usr/local/mailman/logs/post:
> 
> Dec 05 17:59:48 2003 (38597) post to tcbug from friar_josh at tcbug.org,
>  size=1994,  message-id=<20031205124245.GB36717 at ns1.tcbug.org>, 20 
> failures
> 
> (There are 20 members on the mailing list in question)
> 
> /usr/local/mailman/logs/smtp:
> 
> Dec 05 17:54:09 2003 (38597) All recipients refused: (61, 'Connection refused')
> Dec 05 17:54:09 2003 (38597) <mailman.0.1070646847.38595.tcbug at tcbug.org> 
> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.046 seconds
> Dec 05 17:54:09 2003 (38597) All recipients refused: (61, 'Connection refused')
> Dec 05 17:54:09 2003 (38597) <mailman.1.1070646847.38595.tcbug at tcbug.org> 
> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.110 seconds
> 
> /usr/local/mailman/logs/smtp-error:
> 
> Dec 05 17:54:09 2003 (38597) delivery to 2546547 at msn.com failed with code -1:
> ignore
> Dec 05 17:54:09 2003 (38597) delivery to tcbug-owner at tcbug.org failed with code
> -1: ignore
> 
> ...this is followed by similar messages for each of the members of the list.
> 
> Just for kicks I've apt-get installed Mailman on a debian 3.0 box I have 
> laying around, along with Postfix 2.0.x and everything works perfectly out
> of the box.  I've been tearing my hair out trying to see what's different
> between the two installations, but I can't find it.  Any and all advice, 
> suggestions, clues, feats of magic, or beatings with the clue stick would
> be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Josh Paetzel
> friar_josh at tcbug.org
> 
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