[Mailman-Users] NNTP Mass catch up

[thufir]

In the Mail<->News gateways Section for my "alpha" list I clicked the 
box for a mass catchup.  The news server is the same machine, so I 
entered localhost.  (I'm running leafnode.)

I do see NNTP in the cron script for mailman, so I uncommented that:

root at dur:~#
root at dur:~# cat /etc/cron.d/mailman | grep gate_news
  */5 * * * * list [ -x /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news ] && 
/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news
root at dur:~#


How do I know the results of the mass catch up?  It seems to have worked:

root at dur:~#
root at dur:~# nl /var/log/mailman/fromusenet
      1	Nov 19 09:40:02 2012 (3035) alpha: [2..8718]
      2	Nov 19 09:40:02 2012 (3035) alpha caught up to article 8718
      3	Nov 19 09:40:02 2012 (3035) alpha watermark: 8718
root at dur:~#


only I don't see any such articles actually in the list.  Mails to the 
list (it's only me subscribed) seem to work fine.

root at dur:~#
root at dur:~# nl /var/log/mailman/post
      1	Nov 19 01:30:04 2012 (13366) post to alpha from 
alpha-request at dur.bounceme.net, size=1646, 
message-id=<mailman.0.1353317401.13682.alpha at dur.bounceme.net>, 1 failures
      2	Nov 19 02:13:29 2012 (13366) post to alpha from 
thufir at dur.bounceme.net, size=1499, message-id=<1353320001.13556.0 at dur>, 
success
      3	Nov 19 02:24:18 2012 (13366) post to alpha from 
thufir at dur.bounceme.net, size=1850, message-id=<1353320657.13556.2 at dur>, 
success
      4	Nov 19 09:31:54 2012 (1413) post to alpha from 
thufir at dur.bounceme.net, size=1523, message-id=<1353346312.2541.0 at dur>, 
success
root at dur:~#


and come through fine.  I can read and post to the list, but the 
archives are empty and the NNTP messages are in limbo.




thanks,

Thufir