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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Marcelo Laurenti wrote : 
> This is my fisr message to the list, I very proud of using sympa, It 's
> been the best solution for auw newsletters, until now it worked very
> fine, now I have upgrade from sympa 2.3 over redhat to sympa 2.4 over a
> with libc6 2.1 and I am experiencing some problems.
> First sympa.pl falls down and do not make de smtp calls specified on
> maxsmtp parameter and when it work sl eaves a lot of sendmail zombies
> The sendmail version is 8.9.3
> The libc6 is 2.1.3-2 on debian
> So anybody have any suggests?

What does sympa.log say ?
To have maximum verbosity, run sympa.pl with -dD options.

> I have another question, when sympa is restarted, how it works?
> repporces the entire list if the message is in queue or in any way it
> knows the status and process the list from the status it was befare it
> falls?

No, there is no checkpoint for Sympa to continue delivery where it stopped.
Sympa deletes messages in the spool ones it was completely processed.
If the sending process is interrupted for some reason, the message remains
in the spool and will be processed from the first to the last subscriber.

If Sympa runs in -m mode, you can deduce the last "served" subscriber from the
log file and restart Sympa with a flat subscriber file (subscribers.db.dump
 without "served" subscribers, renamed subscribers).