problemduring posting to moderated groups

[Russ Allbery]

Todd Olson <tco2 at cornell.edu> writes:

>> The server sent the following response:
>> 441 Mailer exited with status -1 -- Article might not have been mailed

> However the message is correctly forwarded to the moderator.  The
> sendmail logs show nothing unusual. (just a line for the message from
> news and a line for the message being sent out to the moderator (and
> being accepted))

> The news.debug logs show "Mailer exited with status -1" message.

> The line that generates the "Mailer exited with ..." is in inews.  I'm
> having a hard time figuring what is going on.

I'm pretty sure it's in nnrpd, actually; client postings don't go through
inews.  nnrpd handles them directly, and that error message also appears
there.

For some reason, sendmail is returning a non-zero status code.  Tracing
nnrpd will unfortunately be a lot more difficult; I don't have a good idea
as to how to track down this problem.  :/

> 3) I have truss-ed the inews on a command line, but I am not knowledgeable
>    enough to figure out what is wrong.  It seems that sendmail is getting
>    called correctly ....  (See truss excerpt below)

The truss of inews reveals no problems and sendmail returning 0 (as
expected).  Can you think of anything about the sendmail setup that may
cause problems?  What is "mta" set to in inn.conf?

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>