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[Gregor Hoffleit <address@concealed>]

Many thanks, David, for the quick reply.

The key hint was to check the users database. In fact the entries for a
significant part of the list recipients had been invalidated ('NULL' <>
NULL ;-) during some export/reimport of the database.


Regards,
    Gregor


* David Verdin <address@concealed> [080926 09:13]:
> Would it be possible that a lot of people have their reception 
> preferences set to "no mail"?
> If Sympa crashed while processing this message, you should receive a 
> crash notification the next time you launch Sympa. Additionnally, you 
> would not be able to send any message thereafter, the Sympa processes 
> being stopped.
> If go on with the hypothesis of a Sympa failure, something should 
> trigger it. Is it always the same address that is the last to be processed ?
> What do the Sympa logs say after having processed the message? Do they 
> sop or do they continue as if nothing happened?
> What version of Sympa do you use?
> If Sympa crashes, it dumps its last error messages in a file called 
> ####.stderr (where #### is the id of the process that just crashed) 
> located in the tmp spool. You could find useful informations there.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gregor Hoffleit a écrit :
> >We're testing a setup with a huge list (130.000 subscribers).
> >When I send a message to the list, Sympa pumps out 1400 mails to the
> >Postfix MTA, covering 28.000 addresses. Then it simply stops delivering.
> >
> >Strange thing: It leaves a message in the syslog that sounds like a
> >success message:
> >
> >    sympa(message)[11853]: main::DoMessage() Message for test-list from 
> >    address@concealed accepted (466 seconds, 1439 sessions, 100243 subscribers), 
> >    message-id <address@concealed>, size=43874
> >
> >But, as you can see, something's wrong here: 1439 mails with at max 25
> >addresses is much less than the expected 100243 recipients. And in fact,
> >if I look into the mail log, there are less than 29000 recipients.
> >
> >And it reproducably stops at 1439 sessions, when I rerun the message.
> >
> >
> >I would expect that Sympa would log some error message or at least a
> >warning, IF if would drop some messages deliberately.
> >
> >Is it possible that Sympa just crashes here silently?
> >
> >
> >Any hint where I could go and look for more information,
> >
> >
> >Thanks a lot in advance,
> >    Gregor
> >  
> 
> -- 
> David Verdin
> Comité réseau des universités

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