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[Aumont - Comite Reseaux des Universites <address@concealed>]

Hi,

Please do not cross post messages to both sympa-users and sympa-dev.


Andreas de Pretis wrote:

> We are currently using Sympa 3.4.3 and distributed a HTML-Newsletter
> to 6595 subscribers yesterday evening (about 19.00/7pm). At about
> 01.00/1am today I found our Mailserver nearly collapsing because of
> the really high load. After discovering that Sympa still distributed
> the newsletter sent about 6 hours ago (the server is an Compaq Alpha
> DS10 btw.) i stopped all Sympa/Sendmail processes and had to
> recognize that there was something running REALLY amok within sympa
> (I've attached the current configuration).
>
> These are the facts I discovered yet:
>
> +) within the problematic period of time (see above) there was
>   only 1 processing cycle running at
>
>   Jan 13 18:52:53 mail sympa[20405]: Processing message for news
>     with priority 5, <00fa01c3d9fe$0726f4e0$b9c810ac@emmeran>
>
>   Jan 13 18:52:53 mail sendmail[15838]: i0DHqHwn011947:
>     to="| /usr/local/sympa/smrsh/queue news",
> ctladdr=<address@concealed>
>     (8/0), delay=00:00:36, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=prog, pri=268393,
>     dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>
> +) only 367 of 6595 have received the newsletter (discovered from
>   maillog)
>  

You need to run "sympa.pl -m -d" when distributing message to this list 
or to set log_level equal 3. You will probably discover that something 
make the distribution process to stop before the distribution is 
finished and without removing the message from the spool. You will be 
able to report a bug related to that, for exemple a email adress 
incorrect format unproperly handled by Sympa ?

Regards
Serge