[Mailman-Users] Mailman causing strange slowdown in SMTP

[Mark Sapiro]

Craig Pettersen wrote:

>This mailman installation serves only one list, an announcement only list,
>of about 35,000 members, with over 10,000 disabled due to bounces that send
>once every 2 weeks or so. It invariably sends
>several hundred to a thousand messages individually at the +/-15sec./message
>rate, then a big bulk mailing to most subscribers that's taking about 3000
>seconds for around 23,000, then a few score more of individual messages
>before it stops functioning.


What exactly is in Mailman's smtp and smtp-failure logs (the
'individual' messages are not the post).


>Using ps aux, one can see that all the
>qrunners are there and appear normal, but bin/mailmanctl must be used to
>stop and start things to get them going again.


When things are not going, what is the contents of the queues
(subdirectories of the qfiles/ directory)?


>  So my questions are...does anyone have any idea what mailman could be
>doing to interfere with smtp on its SMTPHOST and how to fix it? and does
>anyone have any idea why mailman stops working shortly after sending out the
>big list?


What are your various mm_cfg.py settings if any for the VERP settings
and for SMTP_MAX_RCPTS and SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION.

You might try

SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 10
SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION = 1

To see if that makes a difference.

If you restart both Mailman and qmail, does the first subsequent
Mailman SMTP session exhibit the 15 second delay?

Have you seen
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.011.htp>?

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