Mailman and SMTPDirect stop talking, mailing totally fails

[Cabelsa]

I'm using Mailman 2.1 and Mac OS X 10.2.5.

When I send my message (a personalized, announce-only list),
after the first 150 or so deliveries (out of 19640), Mailman
suddenly seems to stop communicating to the SMTP server, and
all remaining recipients fail.

There are no real good clues in /var/log/mail.log as to why SMTP
is getting grumpy. These are the interesting parts of mail.log that
appear around the time of failure -- everything else looks fine.

-- /var/log/mail.log:

Apr 23 15:06:39 newposh sendmail[5928]: h3NM4o0o005928:
SYSERR(root): Cannot create ./dfh3NM4o0o005928: File exists
[..]
Apr 23 15:06:40 newposh sendmail[6251]: h3NM4o0j005928:
to=<email address hidden>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01,
mailer=esmtp, pri=85368, relay=vm4-ext.prodigy.net.
[207.115.63.115], dsn=5.3.0, stat=User unknown
Apr 23 15:06:40 newposh sendmail[6251]: h3NM4o0j005928:
h3NM6ewS006251: DSN: User unknown.

-- logs/smtp:

Apr 23 15:08:25 2003 (663) All recipients refused: please run
connect() first
Apr 23 15:08:25 2003 (663) All recipients refused: please run
connect() first
Apr 23 15:08:25 2003 (663) All recipients refused: please run
connect() first
Apr 23 15:08:25 2003 (663) All recipients refused: please run
connect() first
[..etc..]

-- logs/error:

Apr 23 15:08:25 2003 (663) Uncaught runner exception: please
run connect() first
Apr 23 15:08:25 2003 (663) Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105,
in _oneloop
    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155,
in _onefile
    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py",
line 61, in _dispose
    self._func(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line

150, in process
    conn.quit()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line

80, in quit
    self.__conn.quit()
  File "/BinaryCache/python/python-3.root~377/usr/lib/
python2.2/smtplib.py", line 671, in quit
    self.docmd("quit")
  File "/BinaryCache/python/python-3.root~377/usr/lib/
python2.2/smtplib.py", line 352, in docmd
    self.putcmd(cmd,args)
  File "/BinaryCache/python/python-3.root~377/usr/lib/
python2.2/smtplib.py", line 308, in putcmd
    self.send(str)
  File "/BinaryCache/python/python-3.root~377/usr/lib/
python2.2/smtplib.py", line 300, in send
    raise SMTPServerDisconnected('please run connect() first')
SMTPServerDisconnected: please run connect() first

Apr 23 15:08:25 2003 (663) SHUNTING:
1051135414.712172+5cc02db8df9b882e2bc690b9706a9f7bf56
f273a

--

Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help you find
the cause of this problem.

Thanks!

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=726554&group_id=103&atid=100103]

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

I believe I fixed this for Mailman 2.1.2. If after that's
release (RSN, I promise!) if this bug recurs, please reopen
this bug report.