Package: mailman Version: 2.1.5-8sarge5 Followup-For: Bug #395493 Hello, Problem:mailman has problems sending mail. Some emails will be sent and other will not. Steps:Mailman receives message. Archives it. Tries to send it to list. Connects and after 5 min times out. Logs are showing the: smtp-failure shows: Low level smtp error: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor, msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> smtp: (8074) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 300.120 seconds Please notice the time here 300 sec is a lot. mail.log: Nov 1 13:58:30 localhost postfix/smtpd[8735]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]Nov 1 13:58:30 localhost postfix/smtpd[8735]: D07CE25C101: client=localhost[127.0.0.1] Nov 1 14:03:30 localhost postfix/smtpd[8735]: timeout after DATA from localhost[127.0.0.1] Nov 1 14:03:30 localhost postfix/smtpd[8735]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Please notice the 5min timeout.
If you would like to see the time stamps.(skip otherwise) http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-October/054025.html Finding solution: 1.Is your configuration good? yes. It has worked for 6 months, some emails are going through. Mailserver works when sending and delivering local mail. Fresh instalation with apt-get original permissions etc. I'm unable to tell which members emails are delivered to and which are not. For reference on instalation see: (skip otherwise) http://acm.cs.uic.edu/modules/mediawiki/index.php/Debian#Mailman_on_Debian_with_Postfix.2C_instalation_and_configuration 2. Can mailman connect to smtp server? yes. xxxxxx:/home/lucas# su list xxxxxx:/home/lucas$ telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 xxxxxx.xxxxxxx.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU) 2a. Can python connect using smtplib.py? yes su list > >>python > >>>> import smtplib > >>>> SMTPHOST = 'localhost' > >>>> SMTPPORT = 0 > >>>> x = smtplib.SMTP() > >>>> x.connect(SMTPHOST, SMTPPORT) > >(220, 'mycomp.example.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)') > >>>> x.close > ><bound method SMTP.close of <smtplib.SMTP instance at 0x4021a5ec>> > >>>> x.close() > >>>> SMTPHOST = 'example.com' > >>>> x.connect(SMTPHOST, SMTPPORT) > >(220, 'mycomp.example.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)') > >>>> x.close() > >>>> SMTPHOST = 'mycomp' > >>>> x.connect(SMTPHOST, SMTPPORT) > >(220, 'mycomp.example.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)') > >>>> x.close() > > 3. Are there any other errors? No. Other then these specified above. 4. Can you enable debug level and see the errors? NO. Debian bug? I changed the Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py as follows. > > def __connect(self): > > self.__conn = smtplib.SMTP() > > self.__conn.connect(mm_cfg.SMTPHOST, mm_cfg.SMTPPORT) > > self.__numsessions = mm_cfg.SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION > >and add a line so it becomes > > def __connect(self): > > self.__conn = smtplib.SMTP() > > self.__conn.set_debuglevel(1) > > self.__conn.connect(mm_cfg.SMTPHOST, mm_cfg.SMTPPORT) > > self.__numsessions = mm_cfg.SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION This should provide additional level of debuging information. It does not. No additional errors are shown in any mailman logs, mail.log.err.warn nor syslog. Should i make seperate bug for it? 5. Did you try to solve this? yes but no luck on mailman mailing list. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-October/054049.html Mark Sapiro belives it is a debian bug that smtplib which tries to write to stderr, which in turn should write to logs is not doing that. No output from debug level is available which in turn prohibits me from finding out what is causing the timeout and file descriptor problem. 6.Help advice? I already tried reinstalling mailman. dpkg purge mailman. then restoring archives and config/users by synch_members and config_list -o,then -i. Same issue reappears, whether it is a new mailing list 'testing' or reinstalled old one. Thank You Lukasz(Lucas) Szybalski -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages mailman depends on: ii apache2-mpm-prefork [ 2.0.54-5sarge1 traditional model for Apache2 ii cron 3.0pl1-86 management of regular background p ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii logrotate 3.7-5 Log rotation utility ii postfix [mail-transpo 2.1.5-9 A high-performance mail transport ii pwgen 2.03-1 Automatic Password generation ii python 2.3.5-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii ucf 1.17 Update Configuration File: preserv -- debconf information: mailman/queue_files_present: * mailman/default_server_language: en mailman/gate_news: false * mailman/site_languages: en * mailman/used_languages: * mailman/create_site_list: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
