[Mailman-Users] HELPPPPPPPP !!!

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--
It doesn't have much to do with GoDaddy, unless the OP typoed 1,000 when 
he wrote 100,000 ;-)  Assuming the limit is indeed 100,000, then this is 
a qmail problem.

Qmail needs to be tuned.  I don't remember the exact figures I used, but 
the default settings are teeny and need to be raised.  Google qmail 
limits and you should find what to change.

Log locations on a dedicated server aren't in standard places.  Here's a 
few (sorry for the wrap):

/usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog (Qmail log)
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat (View the amount of messages currently in 
your outbound queue)
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread (List out all messages in your outbound queue)
find /var/qmail/queue -name XXXX | xargs cat | less (Read the entire 
contents of an email, including headers, where XXXX is the ~8 digit ID 
specified on the /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread command)

Between the logs and tuning qmail, the OP should get massively better 
throughput with few delays (and the ones that are left are due entirely 
to GoDaddy, not qmail).

I've never used cpanel, but Plesk isn't bad for what it does.  It's just 
figuring out what it does that's the hard part.

Metta,
Ivan


Michael Kabot wrote:
> Also being a GoDaddy Dedicated Server customer, I would say it may have
> NOTHING to do with Mailman...
> 
> You don't really have your own SMTP server at GoDaddy - you go through their
> SMTP relay.  I have found that on some days email goes out instantly, on
> others it gets delayed for hours.  Also, if you are a new GoDaddy customer
> you probably have a "watch" filter set on your account to verify you are not
> spamming - this may slow things down too.
> 
> I would check your logs and see when emails are sent to the SMTP relay, this
> will tell you how Mailman is doing.  Delivery time is not an accurate
> reflection of what Mailman is/isn't doing.
> 
> What server admin application are you using: Cpanel or Plesk?  You also may
> want to check your mail queue to see if anything is stuck there.
> 
> Mike
> 
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: mailman-users-bounces+mkabot=soarol.com at python.org
> | [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+mkabot=soarol.com at python.org] On Behalf
> | Of Jeff Shepherd
> | Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:02 PM
> | To: balligho
> | Cc: mailman-users at python.org
> | Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] HELPPPPPPPP !!!
> | 
> | You may want to check how the mailing list was setup.  If it was
> | setup to use digests, then depending on the digest that was setup, it
> | may be an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly digest.  Meaning that X
> | number of users are delivered the message at the intervals that I
> | mentioned.
> | 
> | You can check this under the "Digest Options" in the Admin panel of
> | the list.
> | 
> | Page 11 of the Admin Manual explains the Digest option in greater
> | detail that, more than likely, explains it better than I just did.
> | 
> | -Jeff
> | 
> | 
> | On Jul 12, 2007, at 6:29 PM, balligho wrote:
> | 
> | >
> | > hello all..
> | >
> | > after warmn wlecomes I would like to say : PLEASE HELPPPPPPPPP !
> | >
> | > I have purchased a dedicated server from godaddy.com, celeron 2000
> | > 1 GB Ram
> | > bla bla bla .. I bought this server to host my mailing list on
> | > which has
> | > over 45,000 subscribers which should be no problem because I'm
> | > allowed to
> | > send 100,000 messages per day .. only me post a small daily
> | > newsletter to
> | > the members..
> | >
> | > well they kinda automatically install the mailman mailing list
> | > manager using
> | > the server's control panel, after installing, configuration,
> | uploading
> | > members, all is well.. then I post to the list .. I have added like
> | > 5 or 6
> | > test email accounts @yahoo and @gmail and @hotmail n others to test
> | if
> | > mailman will deliver to these addresses or not ..
> | >
> | > now I'm completely blind.. the damn thing has noooooooo kind of
> | status
> | > report, delivery queue... etc nothing !!! I have checked all the test
> | > account and didn't find my message except in 1 of them .. yet I keep
> | > recieving some messages to my administrator email that mailman caught
> | > bounces it couldn't resolve so I figured out it's still sending ..
> | >
> | > my question is: DOES MAILMAN TAKE OVER A DAY TO SEND TO 45,000
> | > PEOPLE  ON A
> | > SERVER WITH ULTRA HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION?? I used to send
> | > the daily
> | > newsletter using a small script I did in microsoft outlook to
> | > automatically
> | > compose messages and send them n it didn't take over 5 hours each
> | > day on my
> | > stupid computer with bad internet connection .. and how the heck I
> | > can track
> | > what mailman's doing?? or if it delivered to all subscribers or not??
> | >
> | > please help ...
> | >
> | > Thanks..
> | >
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