tags 395493 +unreproducible thanks On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:42:32PM -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> Problem:mailman has problems sending mail. Some emails will be sent > and other will not. Have you been able to see a pattern separating those can get sent and those that don't? > Steps:Mailman receives message. Archives it. Tries to send it to > list. Connects and after 5 min times out. Wild guess: You do tarpitting (or other "answer slowly to suspected spammers" measure) in your MTA and localhost is not whitelisted (exempted) from this. > 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. If you send the same email Mailman is sending, does it go through? I mean when you send it with SMTP, not by piping to /usr/sbin/sendmail. > 4. Can you enable debug level and see the errors? > NO. Debian bug? I don't know. Mark Sapiro claims that smtplib debug info goes to stderr, but it goes to stdout. Maybe this explains it. On the other hand, writing to stderr creates a traceback. > 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, No, it writes to stdout, not stderr. -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
