[Mailman-Users] From a newbie

[Elena Fraboschi]

Before committing suicide :-), I felt that life was wonderful enough
to ask the question to all of you and then, if no solution, I
guess suicide will have to be my answer :-)

I have installed mailman (in a Sparc Ultra-5 running Solaris 8)
by now 4 times.  It works to perfection...

for the first message.

It does the first message... 

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Your new mailing list: mailman
From: mailman-admin at mafalda.math.indiana.edu
To: elena at inca.math.indiana.edu
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:55:59 -0500
X-BeenThere: mailman at mafalda.math.indiana.edu
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
List-Id: <mailman.mafalda.math.indiana.edu>
X-List-Administrivia: yes

The mailing list `mailman' has just been created for you. . . blah blah

and thereafter, it does anything it pleases EXCEPT... sending any
messages at all.

Yes, I subscribed myself as a member.  I checked the permissions.
I looked into the qrunner log, saw that it had caught a SIGTERM,
and re-started it.  So far, this is that log:

Mar 10 18:56:51 2003 (9499) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 9500, sig: None, sts: 15, class: ArchRunner, slice: 1/1) 
Mar 10 18:56:51 2003 (9499) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 9502, sig: None, sts: 15, class: CommandRunner, slice: 1/1) 
Mar 10 18:56:51 2003 (9499) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 9501, sig: None, sts: 15, class: BounceRunner, slice: 1/1) 
Mar 10 18:56:51 2003 (9499) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 9504, sig: None, sts: 15, class: NewsRunner, slice: 1/1) 
Mar 10 18:56:51 2003 (9499) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 9506, sig: None, sts: 15, class: VirginRunner, slice: 1/1) 
Mar 10 18:56:51 2003 (9499) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 9505, sig: None, sts: 15, class: OutgoingRunner, slice: 1/1) 
Mar 10 19:22:50 2003 (9611) BounceRunner qrunner started.
Mar 10 19:22:50 2003 (9610) ArchRunner qrunner started.
Mar 10 19:22:51 2003 (9613) IncomingRunner qrunner started.
Mar 10 19:22:51 2003 (9612) CommandRunner qrunner started.
Mar 10 19:22:52 2003 (9614) NewsRunner qrunner started.
Mar 10 19:22:52 2003 (9615) OutgoingRunner qrunner started.
Mar 10 19:22:52 2003 (9616) VirginRunner qrunner started.

I checked the syslog, and this is what it says, for example:

Mar 10 14:34:11 mafalda sendmail[3464]: [ID 801593 mail.info] OAA03464: 
from=<elena at inca.math.indiana.edu>, size=664, 
class=0, pri=30664, nrcpts=1, 
msgid=<200303101927.OAA22456 at inca.math.indiana.edu>, proto=ESMTP, 
relay=inca.math.indiana.edu [129.79.147.77]
Mar 10 14:34:12 mafalda sendmail[3465]: [ID 801593 mail.info] OAA03464: 
to="|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post argentina-feca", delay=00:00:01, 
xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=prog, stat=Sent

which I interpret it to mean that the message was accepted and,
theoretically, sent.  Indeed, it was sent to the queue.  Then,
silence.  It's like a "black hole".  Anyone can lend me a hand?
I don't know where else to look or what to do---I am at a loss.
Many thanks.  Best, elena