[Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

[george bannerman]

Hi all--

Ummm... strangely, this appears to be working again.  Not sure why, but I'm
happy!

george

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:29 PM, george bannerman <georgebannerman at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi all--
>
> I've got a tricky problem on my mailman server.  Right now, I have
> admin_immed_notify set to yes, but I'm not getting notifications when there
> are emails to approve.  I'm also not getting the once-a-day "# list
> moderator request(s) waiting" either.  "Forward messages (individually) to:"
> doesn't work.  They all mysteriously stopped last Friday.
>
> I'm running Exim version 4.50 #1, Mailman 2.1.5,  Python 2.3.5, and Linux
> version 2.6.16.13-xenU (Red Hat 4.0.2-8 running on Xen).
>
> I rebooted the server ("have you tried turning it off and turning it on
> again?") and the restarted the exim daemon and ran check_perms, to no avail.
>
> I can email listname-owner (and it goes through), I can send email from the
> server, and list emails go out to the lists just fine.  It only appears to
> be the administrator notifications and the forward messages individually to
> that are affected.
>
> I looked at FAQ 4.73:
>
>
> http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/4.73+How+do+I+debug+smtp-failure+problems+-+delivery+to+user-example.com+failed+with+code+-1-+and+Low+level+smtp+error-
>
> I can telnet into my SMTP port and send mail.
> I looked at the MTA logs and they seem fine.  (They're below.)
> I'm not running Python 2.4, so I can't do the error log trick
>
> I looked at FAQ 6.14:
>
> http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030722
>
> I don't get any errors when I run the two python scripts interactively as
> the mailman user.
>
> Here's what I'm getting in /var/lib/mailman/logs/smtp-failure:
>
> Feb 25 13:54:52 2009 (1052) delivery to administrator at example.com failed
> with code -1: Connection unexpectedly closed
> Feb 25 14:32:49 2009 (1052) Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection
> refused'), msgid: <msgid at list.example.com>
> Feb 25 14:32:49 2009 (1052) delivery to administrator at example.com failed
> with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused')
> Feb 25 14:34:02 2009 (1052) Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection
> refused'), msgid: <msgid at www.example.org>
> Feb 25 14:34:02 2009 (1052) Low level smtp error: please run connect()
> first, msgid: <msgid at www.example.org>
> --
> Feb 25 14:35:55 2009 (1052) Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection
> refused'), msgid: <msgid at list.example.com>
> Feb 25 14:35:55 2009 (1052) delivery to administrator at example.com failed
> with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused')
>
> Here's what's in /var/log/exim4/mainlog:
>
> 2009-02-25 17:17:10 1LcS3p-0003iA-Ek => administrator at example.comR=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=
> ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com [209.85.217.8]
> 2009-02-25 17:17:10 1LcS3p-0003iA-Ek Completed
> 2009-02-25 17:17:24 1LcS46-0003iH-Cj => administrator at example.comR=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=
> ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com [209.85.217.8]
> 2009-02-25 17:17:24 1LcS46-0003iH-Cj Completed
>
> (These are for a different message, but are representative.)
>
> There doesn't seem to be anything in rejectlog.
>
> I've tried changing the list administrator to a different email address by
> a different provider, but that doesn't seem to change anything.
>
> Help?
>
> Best,
>
> george
>