[Mailman-Users] help diagnosing problem

[Mark Sapiro]

Ricardo Kleemann wrote:

>Ok, I do see that there are a few errors for malformed remote addresses, but 
>would this cause mailman to stop processing? Looking through smtp-failure I 
>see only a couple of these errors in an hour timeframe, nothing that would 
>cause mailman to get stuck.


The errors you see are symtoms of problems between Mailman and the MTA.
You won't actually see anything in the smtp-failure log about the hang
itself.


>It seems very slow in handling the large outqueue, even though I have a high 
>power server and very fast internet connection. I don't see python taking up 
>much of the cpu, it is processing the out queue, but it would seem to me, 
>very slowly.


Because most of the time is Mailman just waiting for an SMTP response.

If you have Python 2.4 or later, see the FAQ at
<http://wiki.list.org/x/-IA9> for a way to get copious debugging info
from the Python smtplib. Also search the FAQ for 'performance'.

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