Re: mailing lists and "unknown mail transport error"

2010-08-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Phill Macey: > On 10 August 2010 21:35, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > When you have a many-recipient "all" alias, you need to set up an > > "owner-all" alias in the alias database (with the right-hand side > > being the adminstrator of the "all" list). Besides changing the > > way errors are reporte

Re: mailing lists and "unknown mail transport error"

2010-08-10 Thread Phill Macey
On 10 August 2010 21:35, Wietse Venema wrote: > When you have a many-recipient "all" alias, you need to set up an > "owner-all" alias in the alias database (with the right-hand side > being the adminstrator of the "all" list). Besides changing the > way errors are reported, this also triggers a d

Re: mailing lists and "unknown mail transport error"

2010-08-10 Thread Dominik Storck
Hello Wietse, have not been aware of the difference. Added the owner-alias and will keep an eye on the list. Thanks a lot Dominik > Dominik Storck: >> Hello Wietse, >> >> I have been looking for these error messages over and over before I >> started digging deeper. There are none of the error,

Re: mailing lists and "unknown mail transport error"

2010-08-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Dominik Storck: > Hello Wietse, > > I have been looking for these error messages over and over before I > started digging deeper. There are none of the error,fatal,warning or > panic messages before. The first error log entry to occur is the unknown > mail transport error, really. Looking at t

Re: mailing lists and "unknown mail transport error"

2010-08-09 Thread Dominik Storck
Hello Wietse, I have been looking for these error messages over and over before I started digging deeper. There are none of the error,fatal,warning or panic messages before. The first error log entry to occur is the unknown mail transport error, really. Dominik Am 10.08.2010 00:07, schrieb

Re: mailing lists and "unknown mail transport error"

2010-08-09 Thread Wietse Venema
Dominik Storck: > Hello Wietse, > > I have been tracking down to "Automatically tracing a Postfix daemon > process" from the DEBUG_README. This is how I got the log snippet. > > Can't reproduce the error now after deleting unnecessary .forward files. Please do not waste your time with verbose lo

Re: mailing lists and "unknown mail transport error"

2010-08-09 Thread Dominik Storck
Hello Wietse, I have been tracking down to "Automatically tracing a Postfix daemon process" from the DEBUG_README. This is how I got the log snippet. Can't reproduce the error now after deleting unnecessary .forward files. Hope things will stay this way. Thank you Dominik Am 09.08.2010 22:1

Re: mailing lists and "unknown mail transport error"

2010-08-09 Thread Wietse Venema
In case you wonder, I wrote Postfix. Perhaps you can follow instructions in http://www.postfix.org/.DEBUG_README.html#logging TURN OFF -v logging before you do this. Wietse

Re: mailing lists and "unknown mail transport error"

2010-08-09 Thread Dominik Storck
Hello Andrzej, thanks for your suggestion. However, increasing ulimit -n did not help in the first place . Debugging info by adding -v in master.cf came up with lots of debugging info yet not leading to success. After attaching strace to the local daemon, I observed a kind of a loop when it came

Re: mailing lists and "unknown mail transport error"

2010-08-05 Thread Andrzej KukuĊ‚a
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:39, Dominik Storck wrote: > > This has been working perfectly for years. Now the number of recipients > for some of > these lists have increased to more than 200. > > When a mail is sent to these recipients mail delivery starts as expected > but stops > short before end o

Re: mailing lists and "unknown mail transport error"

2010-08-04 Thread Wietse Venema
See http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#logging When Postfix does not receive or deliver mail, the first order of business is to look for errors that prevent Postfix from working properly: % egrep '(warning|error|fatal|panic):' /some/log/file | more Note: the most important message is

mailing lists and "unknown mail transport error"

2010-08-04 Thread Dominik Storck
Hello, I have a problem here with mailing lists. I've configured these as entries in the /etc/aliases like group-x: :include:/etc/group-x.list and corresponding files /etc/group-x.list with one line per (local) recipient This has been working perfectly for years. Now the number of recipie