[Mailman-Users] Re: Poster not receiving his own posts

[Mark Sapiro]

Anthony Chavez wrote:
>
>On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:14:17 -0800 Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
>
>> Check the Mailman logs, post and smtp. The number of recipients in the
>> smtp log for a post should equal the number of non-digest subscribers
>> that aren't set to nomail minus the number of "avoided duplicates".
>> Careful examination/comparison of this should provide at least
>> circumstantial evidence of whether or not the post is being sent to
>> him by Mailman.
>
>Analyzing one particular post attempted by this subscriber, the Mailman
>post log shows a successful post and the smtp log shows 58 recips.
>Here's my subscriber count:
>
>acc at box:.../mailman> sudo bin/list_members -r list | wc -l
>      58
>acc at box:.../mailman> sudo bin/list_members -r -n list | wc -l
>       0
>
>Not sure how to get at the number of "avoided duplicates," though.
>Could you elaborate?

If a regular member's options include "nodupes" and the member's
address is in a To: or Cc: header of the post, Mailman will not send
the post to that member. This does not seem to come into play here as
the number of regular members is 58 and the number of smtp recipients
is also 58, thus we don't have to account for any "missing"
recipients. If we did have to account for missing recipients, we would
have to see if any regular members were in To: or Cc: headers before
concluding there was a problem. This is what I meant by "minus the
number of "avoided duplicates"".

In your case, it is simpler. There are 58 regular members, all of whom
are receiving mail and mailman claims to have sent the post to 58
recipients. So far, so good.

>Nevertheless, tracing through the Postfix log for that particular post
>also yields 58 recipients.  This strikes me as very odd since the sender
>is a non-digest subscriber.

It seems to agree with Mailman that there were the expected 58
recipients, thus the issue seems to be on the outbound side of Postfix.

>
>Thanks for your assistance.  Any further thoughts as to what could be
>causing this?

You could look at Mailman's bounce log to see if anything bounced for
this member, but presumably you would have already seen it in the
Postfix log if it had.

Perhaps the member has a filter at his end that treats the message
differently if it is From: him. Perhaps some kind of spam rule that
assumes a message From: him that is not explicitly addressed (To: or
Cc:) to him is SPAM.

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