Re: messages trough majordomo get queued, EX_TEMPFAIL msg.

Daniel Liston wrote:
> Does this email come from the same server as your majordomo?  Is any
> other user of the system having trouble getting mail to the outside
> world?  As the root user, can you "mail -s test [email protected]"?
> 
> The real question I am asking, is if your sendmail is working.  If not,
> there is no way for majordomo to work, because it depends entirely on
> your MTA for email delivery.  Mail might come in ok, and work between
> internal mailboxes, without being able to talk to the rest of the 'net.

Yes, the MTA was working fine, and that was what get me confused. But I
have already solved the problem.
The problem was entirely my fault.

Wen the messages via majordomo started to arrive late, from four to six
hours of delay, I comment out the line that sets the max_loadavg
variable at the majordomo.conf. Looks like without this line majordomo
waits for the system to have 0 load average :-P.

So, after burning my brain, I try setting this parameter again, and
things works out. I feel like kind of idiot, but shit happens :-D

Now I have a question, what would be a good value to set this
configuration variable?

Thanks for your help Daniel.

BR,
Matias.


> Matias Lopez Bergero wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello Daniel,
>>
>>Daniel Liston wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Has anything been installed on your server that could have replaced the
>>>/etc/smrsh/wrapper link to /usr/local/majordomo/wrapper?
>>
>>
>>no, nothing.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Has the machine been busy (high cpu) where majordomo might not be able
>>>to pass mail to the MTA?
>>
>>
>>Yes, I change the $max_loadavg value to release this a little bit, but
>>the load isn't to much anyway.
>>
>>
>>
>>>When you refer to messages sent directly to a mailbox, do you mean by
>>>majordomo or by some other source?
>>
>>
>>Sorry, I mean sending a mail to a local user from a local account or a
>>remote one. The message is received with no delay at all.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Considering the failure is temporary, does the mail eventually get
>>>delivered?
>>
>>
>>I was happening that the message was getting in after four to six hours
>>later, but now is getting even worst, I haven't get a single message
>>trough majordomo since yesterday
>>
>>I have tons of similar problems reports over the list and other mailing
>>lists, but no one haves give me a clue of where the problem maybe.
>>I configured sendmail to run without smrsh and the error was the same
>>but instead smrsh was /bin/sh.
>>
>>Thank you,
>>Matias.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Dan Liston
>>>
>>>Matias Lopez Bergero wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>>
>>>>The last days I am having this problem, it seems that all the messages
>>>>that goes trough majordomo are getting queued, here is a mailq output:
>>>>
>>>>kBKFLeZP009438        0      30769 Dec 20 12:21 owner-prueba
>>>>               (Deferred: prog mailer (/usr/sbin/smrsh) exited with
>>>>EX_TEMPFAIL)
>>>>
>>>>(---prueba:8:0:<[email protected]>---)
>>>>
>>>>"|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l prueba prueba-list-00FF
>>>>               (Deferred: prog mailer (/usr/sbin/smrsh) exited with
>>>>EX_TEMPFAIL)
>>>>
>>>>A message sent directly to a mailbox get passed without a problem.
>>>>I have completely no idea of what is happening,
>>>>Any help is most welcome.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Matias
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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