[Mailman-Users] Mailman post log failures

[Jonathan Dill]

On Apr 18, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Darren G Pifer wrote:
>>
>> I am seeing these errors in the smtp-failure log:
>>
>> Apr 18 09:11:30 2008 (1231) Low level smtp error: (104, 'Connection
>> reset by peer'), msgid: <200804181200.m3IC01vP026939 at server1.odu.edu>
>> Apr 18 09:13:42 2008 (19445) delivery to user at odu.edu failed with  
>> code
>> -1: Connection unexpectedly closed
>> Apr 18 09:13:42 2008 (19445) delivery to user at odu.edu failed with  
>> code
>> -1: (104, 'Connection reset by peer')
>>
>> I saw a lot of message in the retry directory.
>
>
> Your outgoing MTA (SMTP server) is rudely not accepting mail from
> Mailman. These messages will be queued (in retry/) and retried at 15
> minute intervals for five days before Mailman gives up on them.

If you are using a separate e-mail relay, could also be firewall  
issue, or maybe the relay does not allow the mailman box to use it as  
a relay.  Maybe the hostname or IP of the old server is still used  
somewhere, or maybe you need to fix DNS if the new server has a  
different address.  Also I have encountered problems where someone  
stuck an entry in /etc/hosts to work around some problem, then it  
caused problems later because we forgot about it.


>
>
> If you can't figure out what's going on, there are some tips at
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.073.htp>
> and
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py? 
> req=show&file=faq06.014.htp>.
>
> Do you have SMTPHOST and/or SMTPPORT set in mm_cfg.py to some host/ 
> port
> that is not appropriate after the move?
>
> Can Mailman successfully send notices to 1 recipient, or does this
> happen with all mail?
>
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> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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