[Mailman-Users] All messages discarded, no reason

[Mark Sapiro]

Milos Prudek wrote:

>But all emails sent to the list are discarded by mailman.


Not really. See below.


>Each new mail is logged into /var/log/smtp, /var/log/post, and /var/log/vette. 
>Example:
>
>/var/log/smtp
>Nov 07 13:06:42 2008 (24564) <200811071306.35903.prudek at bvx.cz> smtp to t for 
>3 recips, completed in 0.015 seconds


This says the message was delivered to the outgoing MTA for 3
recipients.


>/var/log/post
>Nov 07 13:06:42 2008 (24564) post to t from prudek at bvx.cz, size=2190, 
>message-id=<200811071306.35903.prudek at bvx.cz>, success


And this says the post was successfully delivered.


>/var/log/vette
>Nov 07 13:06:48 2008 (24562) Message discarded, msgid: 
><200811071306.35903.prudek at bvx.cz>


And this says the same Message-ID was automatically discarded 6 seconds
after being sent.


>However, the email is correctly saved into archive 
>at /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/t with all expected files correctly 
>created (2008-November.txt, 2008-November.txt.gz and so on).
>
>Why Mailman archives but does not distribute?


The message is being received, processed and delivered. I am guessing
that at least one of the recipients of the message loops back to
Mailman because one of the list members is a list address or something
is not properly set up with postfix-to-mailman.py. This message is
then discarded by Mailman because of the X-BeenThere: header

You need to look at Postfix's log (/var/log/maillog) to see what was
done with the messages to those 3 recipients.

Also, not to pick on you specifically because you certainly aren't
unique in this, but I wonder why people choose to follow 3rd party
installation instructions about which we know nothing, but come here
for help when they have problems.

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