[Savannah-help-public] Problems with ePiX mailing lists

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hello sysadmin,

Mails seem to be lost for mailing list 'address@hidden'.

The logs don't show any problem:
2008-03-29 17:24:47 1JfiXf-0003Pu-O8 <= address@hidden H=(monty-python.gnu.org) 
[199.232.76.173] P=esmtp S=2275 address@hidden from <address@hidden> for 
address@hidden
2008-03-29 17:24:48 1JfiXf-0003Pu-O8 => epix-users <address@hidden> 
F=<address@hidden> R=tmda_mailman_router T=tmda_mailman_transport S=2377
2008-03-29 17:24:48 1JfiXf-0003Pu-O8 Completed
2008-03-29 17:24:48 1JfiXg-0003Qb-53 <= address@hidden U=mailman P=tmda-scanned 
S=2427 address@hidden from <address@hidden> for address@hidden
2008-03-29 17:24:48 1JfiXK-0002zz-3Z Completed
2008-03-29 17:24:48 1JfiXg-0003Qb-53 => epix-users <address@hidden> 
F=<address@hidden> R=mailman_router T=mailman_transport S=2406
2008-03-29 17:24:48 1JfiXg-0003Qb-53 Completed


Can you have a look at it?

See the forwarded message below for some timeline information.

Thanks,

-- 
Sylvain


On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 05:56:40PM -0400, Andrew D. Hwang wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:44:26PM -0400, Andrew D. Hwang wrote:
>>> It seems the ePiX-users list (and presumably ePiX-devel as well) stopped
>>> processing messages some time between February 13 and March 10.
>>>
>>> On March 10, a post to the ePiX-users list was not distributed. The
>>> latest successful post to the list was made January 2, 2008, and a
>>> subscription notification was processed as late as February 13.
>>>
>>> Could someone please look into this?
>>
>> I don't see anything wrong in the list configuration.
>>
>> Can you tell us more about this undelivered message? Did you get an
>> error mail back?
>>
> Hi Sylvain,
>
> As far as I know there was nothing unusual about the dropped post; it had 
> no attachments, was less than 1Kb in size, was sent with the same mail  
> software from the same machine I normally use to post. There was no 
> bounce error, but the message was never delivered through the list, and 
> it never showed up on the list archive.
>
> Coincidentally, a new subscription request was delivered two days ago.  
> However, another post I sent to the list about half an hour ago has not  
> been delivered; "normally" posts are delivered within a minute or two.
>
> --
> Andy
>
> Andrew D. Hwang                       address@hidden
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