50400 - some mail->news postings fail

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task, P3)

Description

[Dawn Endico]

Several news postings have failed today. They seem to be all instances
where the post was mailed to the mailing list as opposed to being 
nntp posts. Warren's error was only transient and it looks like it
finally made it through. Shaver, could you try re-posting? Maybe
this was part of the earlier news horkage. Although I thought the
news server had been fixed by the time the shaver and crypto-checkins
messages were sent. However the news server was down twice today
so i'm not sure exactly when it was up.

two automatic messages to mozilla.crypto.checkins bounced at 18:31.
Shaver's problem was at 15:23:52, and warren's at 10:55.  Note that
warren's  problem was transient and i see that the post finally made
it through.

I've forwarded the crypto checkins posts to Risto and Markus. Shaver
and Warren forwarded their bounce mail to staff.

I tried several posts to builds and svg and they all worked.

what happens to mail sent to the mozilla-foobar mailing lists when
the news server is down? do they bounce or do they just get queued?

Comment 1

[Markus Baur]

when the news server is down, messages should just stay in the queue until
newsgate can deliver them.

Comment 2

[Risto Kotalampi]

News server had connection problems.