Mailman archive not updating

[rgladwell]

After importing the mailing list archive from my old server, the archive is no longer updating with when new mails are posted.

When initially importing the old archive I simply ran the mailing list script:

> ./arch discussion /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/discussion.mbox/discussion.mbox

From the /usr/lib/mailman/bin directory on my CentOS machine.

Please advise. TIA...

-- Ricardo

 

[anb_t]

Whether you check your mailing list configuration? Option "Archive messages" should be switched on to enable saving new messages in the archive.
Please get to the mailing list administration control panel and examine "Archiving Options".

For example in my Plesk: Domains -> mydomain.com -> Mail -> Mailing Lists -> discussion, or by direct link: http://lists.mydomain.com/mailman/admin/discussion

Hope this helps.

./anb

 

[rgladwell]

Hi anb,

Thanks for your reply.

I did check my archiving options, and the archive message flag is correctly set to "Yes".

Given this, is there any reason mailman would not be archiving messages?

I checked the permissions on these files and they are set to rw for u and g and owned by root:mailman which seems to be correct.

TIA...

-- Ricardo

 

[galaxy]

I'm having the same issue. In fact, sometimes the messages are held up and not sent out and can't find them anywhere.

I did notice errors in /var/log/mailman/smtp-failure as well as /var/log/mailman/error

I'm seeing a Permission denied on the archive mbox. I believe that's the problem here.

 

[rgladwell]

Hi galaxy,

Absolutely, ta! I found the error message in my log files. Simply change the permissions on the archive MBOX file solved the problem.

Kind regards..

-- Ricardo

 

[galaxy]

I see that the owner & group for the /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/list.mbox/list.mbox file is root:root, but should be "mailman:mailman". In fact everything in /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/*/* should be mailman:mailman, so this was broken from the migration.

 

[galaxy]

maybe I should start a new thread, but I'm also seeing lots of errors in my smtp-failure file of the sort:

delivery to [email protected] failed with code -1: Connection unexpectedly closed

Any idea? Where is the config for mailman to specify an SMTP server?