[Mailman-Users] sendmail/mailman

[Troy Knabe]

I found that my sendmail deamon was only redoing the queue every hour.  
Now that I changed that to 5 minutes. Nothing is staying longer than  
that. But why is mailman delivering to the queue?

-Troy

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On Dec 17, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> Troy Knabe wrote:
>
>> Whenever I send to a mail list that I have created it gets "stuck"  
>> in /
>> var/spool/mqueue.  Once I restart sendmail it instantly processes all
>> of the list messages and they go out.  Any ideas where I might have
>> configured this wrong?
>
>
> This appears to be a sendmail issue, but check Mailman's smtp and
> smtp-failure logs just in case. Assuming you find only the normal
> "<msg-id> smtp to <listname> for nnn recipients, completed in t.ttt
> seconds" messages in smtp and nothing in smtp-failure, then Mailman
> has completed its SMTP transaction(s) to sendmail, and as you say, the
> messages are queued by sendmail. I don't know why it takes a restart
> for sendmail to process the queue. I could be wrong, but I don't think
> it's Mailman.
>
> The only Mailman configuration that affects SMTP at this level is
> SMTP_MAX_RCPTS which may need to be reduced from it's default of 500
> if sendmail is limited to fewer recipients per transaction.
>
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>