[plug] more mailman madness

[Shayne O'Neill]

Cheers. This is getting wierder.

For some reason if I do a netstat -t -c
I get a huge amount of ;-

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
tcp        0      0 localhost:1967          localhost:smtp
TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 localhost:1965          localhost:smtp
TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 localhost:1963          localhost:smtp
TIME_WAIT

If I do a tail -f /var/log/exim/mainlog

theres seems to be a constant stream of;-

2004-06-17 18:39:47 1BauJ3-0001xF-00 Completed
2004-06-17 18:39:50 1BauJC-0001xe-00 <=
guildmembers-bounces at yourguild.murdoch.edu.au H=localhost
(yourguild.murdoch.edu.au) [127.0.0.1] U=list P=esmtp S=22362
id=mailman.368.1087468716.3496.guildmembers at yourguild.murdoch.edu.au
2004-06-17 18:39:51 1BauJ6-0001xN-00 => guildmembers
<guildmembers-owner at yourguild.murdoch.edu.au> D=mailman_director
T=mailman_transport
2004-06-17 18:39:51 1BauJ6-0001xN-00 Completed
2004-06-17 18:39:52 1BauJ9-0001xV-00 => guildmembers
<guildmembers-owner at yourguild.murdoch.edu.au> D=mailman_director
T=mailman_transport
2004-06-17 18:39:52 1BauJ9-0001xV-00 Completed

I'm really frusturated by this as it seems to have the whole damn machine
locked up

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, James Devenish wrote:

> In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406171746150.1037-100000 at guild.murdoch.edu.au>
> on Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:46:52PM +0800, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> > (moderator: delete the mail I sent from other adress)
>
> Well done for being so quick. In the past, I have approved a number of
> message from Leon, who has then re-posted them after I already approved
> the originals ;-)
>
> > Anyone know how to stop the following phenomena?
> >
> > 1)Mailman sends someone email. Email adress wrong
> > 2)Email server sucks and doesnt have proper headers in bounce.
> > 3)mailman thinks its a post to list. list is moderated.
>
> That sounds weird...why are bounces going to your list's address?
> Shouldn't they go to listname-bounces at blah / listname-admin at blah?
>
> > 'its in the queue' message.
>
> As you suggest, you can disable that feature if necessary (i.e. only
> send the notices to the list admin, not the external sender). I think
> the option is respond_to_post_requests in the General section.
>
> > 4)Email server thinks its another email to wrong adress. go to step 2.
> >
> > I have on a moderation queue about 400 postmaster at rararar.arara emails.
>
>
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