[Mailman-Users] join vs subscribe

[Mark Sapiro]

kalin mintchev wrote:
>
>i just got the emails - all of them at once - hours after the requests
>were made...
>
>and i'm seeing something in the maillog i haven't seen before:
>timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input
>
>i just confirmed one. by replying. still not a member...
>
>this has never happened before. i found this thread without a resolution
>of the problem:
>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-July/045582.html
>
>anyone knows how that story ended?
>
>my mailman version is 2.1.5. it has been working fine so far except i have
>to restart mailman with cron because the bounce runner crashes for some
>reason...


So you have qrunner problems possibly affecting more than bounce runner.


>> so then what does it mean when i sent 3 different email requests to
>> subscribe to a list and nothing happens..
>>
>> the ways are: sending a message to list-subscribe at host, list-join at host and
>> list-request at host with the subject and body 'subscribe'.
>> mail log says:
>>
>> l350hXwM001076: to="|/var/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe list",
>> ctladdr=<list-subscribe at caiman.el.net> (8/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=
>> 00:00:01, mailer=prog, pri=30923, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>>
>> or in other words this is turned over to mailman.
>> after A FEW HOURS this turns up in the mailman subscribe log:
>>
>>
>> Apr 04 20:17:21 2007 (5670) list: pending kalin at el.net  kalin at el.net Apr
>> 04 20:17:21 2007 (5670) list: pending kalin at el.net  kalin at el.net Apr 04
>> 20:17:24 2007 (5670) list: pending kalin at el.net  kalin at el.net Apr 04
>> 20:17:25 2007 (5670) list: pending kalin at el.net  kalin at el.net Apr 04
>> 20:17:25 2007 (5670) list: pending kalin at el.net  kalin at el.net Apr 04
>> 20:17:25 2007 (5670) list: pending kalin mintchev <kalin at el.net>
>> kalin at el.net
>>
>> still i have not gotten the email where i'm supposed to confirm my
>> subscription.
>>
>> my name is not in the queue?


Look in all Mailman's logs for relevant entries. Look at Mailman's
qfiles/*/ directories. In short, go through all of
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.014.htp>.

Report the full detail of anything unusual you find.

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