Mailman eats messages - needs debugging

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Hi

I have a bit of trouble with mailman and need some brain-input. So I hope anyone can guide me on the right track.

The setup: mailman from mailman-2.1.12-9.1.i586.rpm on openSUSE 11.1 32bit with sendmail. Note: this package comes from: Index of /repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.1 and is needed because the standard package is completely broken.

The problem: incoming mail disappears, like going to /dev/null. However the web interface works well. I have setup a list called xxxxx (myorg here) and there are some members subscribed.

Did so far: send a test message from outside. Looked at /var/log/mail and saw:

Dec 3 10:04:18 cicero sendmail[22412]: nB394FWi022408:
to="|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post myorg",
ctladdr=<myorg@mailxxxxx.ch> (2/0), delay=00:00:00,xdelay=00:00:00,
mailer=prog, pri=31047, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

The message is coming in! However this message will not appear in the archive and I can’t see it distributed in any way. There is nothing in /var/lib/mailman/logs/error

Question: what to do next to debug this?

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Some more info resulting from my debugging efforts:

The mail coming in is found in /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/in/*.pck where * is the actual filename (mostly numbers).

The greeting message for a new user (subscribed by me) can be found in /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/virgin/*.pck

It appears that mailman is actually getting messages ok, but sends out nothing. I’m still clueless.

BTW: j-chkmail milter is in use, but I can’t see any indication in the logs that it blocks outgoing messages (it would show this in the log).

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IIRC you’re supposed to start a periodic cron job called qrunner, found in the mailman package, to send the mail out to the list.

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Thank you ken_yap. That solved the problem. It was indeed a qrunner not coming up. It seems that the truth of my sig-line hits me too.