Re: wierd bulk_mailer error

Hey thanks very much Iosif!  That did the trick.  Also adding the log has
pointed up several bad addresses which were corrected.
Glenn.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Iosif Fettich" <[email protected]>
To: "Glenn McCalley" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:26 AM
Subject: Re: wierd bulk_mailer error


> Hi Glenn,
>
> try the following, maybe it helps. It's long time since I faced (I
> believe) the same problem, so I may be wrong; in any case, this problem
> never showed up again after I applied the following.
>
> 'Decouple' bulk_mailer from sendmail by interposing a bulk_wrapper shell;
>
> Instead of directly letting majordomo to speek to bulk_mailer via an alias
>   like
>
> list_out: "|/usr/bin/bulk_mailer ..."
>
> make it to something like
>
> list_out: "|/usr/bin/bulk_wrapper list_owner list_recipients logfile"
>
> and let bulk_wrapper be
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/bulk_mailer -v $1 $2 2>&1 >>$3
>
> That gives the additional benefit of allowing for logging bulk_mailer's
> output, which I afterwards use to make up reports about success/failure in
> sending mails, in order to get alerted if something seems odd or wrong
> with the list processing.
>
> Iosif Fettich
>
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Glenn McCalley wrote:
>
> > I have a list with about 33,000 addresses.
> > I've used bulk_mailer for it for years.
> > We've upgraded to sendmail 8.13.1, and also had to recompile
bulk_mailer, no
> > apparent problems.  Compile defaults taken, 100 recipients, 20 domains
as I
> > recall.
> > On smaller lists everything is fine.
> > On this one large list, bulk_mailer will get part way through, seems
about
> > 10% or so, then a couple of thousand sendmail msgs get logged as
follows:
> >
> > mailnull@localhost did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection
to
> > stdin
> >
> > From what I can research, it looks like bulk_mailer quit sending a valid
> > mail and just started making/quitting connections to the sendmail
daemon.
> >
> > I just re-ran the job and got the same result, many good outbound
batches
> > like I'd expect then bang-o 2,400+ errors as fast as the screen can
scroll.
> >
> > I can't find anything wierd in the list itself like a garbage address or
> > something like that (although hey I admit I didn't personally examine
all
> > 33,000+).
> >
> > All ideas appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Glenn.
> >
> >
> >
>
>