[Eug-lug] Problem with Mail/Postfix

Matthew Jarvis mattj at bikefriday.com
Mon Sep 25 09:53:12 PDT 2006


larry price wrote:
> are his posts being held in moderation? That happens in mailman, you
> should be able to see it in mailman's web interface.

As Ben Franklin said, "all things in Moderation".... no, not appearing 
in moderator interface...

> 
> You can also do a grep -l of mailmans qfiles/ directory to see if it's
> winding up in shunt (probably misformed messages) or what.
> 

A clue! Several entries in /usr/local/mailman/logs/mischief

Sep 23 22:21:22 2006 (8880) Login failure with private rosters: 
hisemail at hotmail.com

I'm striking out on a google search for anything that looks relavent...

> some possibilities are,
> a graphical .sig and a mailman policy that drops messages with
> attachments (default)

I didn't think to look for that sort of thing - what file would I look 
at to see if that's the case (other than his email messages which he was 
sending to my home addy and I can't get to right now)

> user or domain explicitly blocked (easy enough to do by accident)



Matthew S. Jarvis
IT Manager
Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs."
www.bikefriday.com
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