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Subject: Re: problems with mail queue
From: dliston @ netscape . com (Dan Liston)
Organization: iPlanet eCommerce Solutions, A Sun-Netscape Alliance
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:54:34 -0500
To: Marcos <marcos @ second . ival . es>
Cc: "majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM" <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>
References: <3ADC1927.3F8DC7D@second.ival.es>


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Marcos wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
>   i have big troubles with mail queue. i have like 200 lists. when i try
> to subscribe

Are you trying to subscribe via email like a normal subscriber?
> 
> from majordomo.cf:
> 
> $mailer = "$sendmail_command -oi -oee -f\$sender";
> $bounce_mailer = "$sendmail_command -oi -oee -f\$sender -t";

What to the $listdir, $filedir and $filedir_suffix variables 
look like?
> 
> in all lists config file:

Does your majordomo user own the config files?
> 
> adminstrativa:  no
> announcements       =   no
> moderate            =   no
> precedence          =   bulk
> purge_received      =   no
> reply_to            =
> resend_host         = lista.mydomain.org
> restrict_post       =   mydomain.senders
> sender              =   cancerinf
> strip               =   yes
> 
> in my aliases file:

Does root own this file?
> 
> cancerinf:     "|/home/majordom/majordomo-1.94.4/wrapper resend -l cancerinf cancerinf-outgoing,nobody"
> cancerinf-outgoing: :include:/home/majordom/majordomo-1.94.4/mail/lists/cancerinf,cancerinf-archive
> owner-cancerinf-outgoing: cancerinf-owner
> cancerinf-archive: /home/majordom/majordomo-1.94.4/mail/archive/cancerinf

Since you are not using the archive2.pl script, the above should be ok, but
I wonder what the ownership of the file is, and the permissions of the 
directory tree leading to it.

> owner-cancerinf-archive: cancerinf-owner
> owner-cancerinf:       owner-listas
> cancerinf-request:"|/home/majordom/majordomo-1.94.4/wrapper request-answer cancerinf"
> owner-cancerinf-request: cancerinf-owner
> cancerinf-approval: majordomo-owner
> cancerinf-owner: owner-listas
> owner-cancerinf-owner: owner-listas
> 
> i receive this email:
> 
> MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!!
> Majordomo@lista.mydomain.org: not replying to MAILER-DAEMON to avoid
> mail loop.

This is what happens when you write mail to majordomo as the root, 
postmaster, or majordomo user.  Make sure your majordomo-owner is
not postmaster or root.
> 
> mail queue is getting higher and higher ..
> i think that when there is an error in a list it resends the error to
> the same list and this is why is getting a loop.

Loops can be prevented by adding custom headers via your config files,
and at the same time adding a taboo filter that rejects them.

Dan Liston



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