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[Harald Wilhelmi <address@concealed>]

Hallo,

you wrote:

> when i send a message to this list only a part of the 1816 adresses
> receive my message (1149 in my case I check it in /var/log/maillog
> of my mail serever)

Any hints in the maillog of the Sympa server?

I haven't seen your problem and it should be quite hard to track
it down as long as there is no error message. But I have some
general ideas where to look:

* Check the general state of your system.
  - If you have a HW or kernel problem it may happen that
    some error messages didn't made it to the syslog. So
    don't forget to check the dmesg command!
  - Check for high load - most sendmails will shutdown on
    load of >8-9 or so. Check this with the uptime
    command. I have seen surpricing results on some http
    servers. For details check the "Bat Book" (Sendmail,
    B. Costales) - look for the Ox/OX options (O QueueLA and
    O RefuseLA is the same). 
  - "Out of swap" is a explaination for almost everything.
    Even if you find no error msgs - high use of swap
    should be suspious. How to check it, depends on your
    OS... swapinfo -t, swapon -s, swap -l ... something like
    that. Of cause you should check, while trying again.

* Check the spool directories. If something went wrong, you
  may find some yunk there.
  - sendmail: /var/spool/mqueue (or /usr/spool/mail on older systems).
    If you find something, you may also try "mailq -v".
  - Sympa: ~sympa/spool/* 

I hope it helps...

Regards
Harald Wilhelmi

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