Bug 107260

Summary:	Need mailman on servers
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	David Juran <djuran>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	dff <dff>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	aleksey, avi, goeran, myk
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Description David Juran 2003-10-16 08:40:24 UTC

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Description of problem:
It is very unfortunate that mailman has disappeared from RHEL since wee need it
on our servers.

Comment 1 Zenon Panoussis 2004-01-01 18:53:17 UTC

Something is not OK with mailman on RHEL. I compiled and installed the
Fedora1 version of mailman on RHEL3AS (Intel ISP1100 box, 850 MHz, 512
MB RAM). It runs fine, but the python qrunner-OutgoingRunner process
takes 99% of the CPU and causes a load of around 1.2 even when "idle".
When a posting arrives to a list with 600 members, the load springs up
to just over 30.0 for a few minutes and settles down again to between
2.0 and 6.0 while the list mails are being produced. A posting to the
list in question (600 and some mails) which was cracked and whizzed
off in just a few minutes by an equivalent RH9 system now takes hours
to finish.

Question to Redhat: Was mailman taken out of RHEL for technical or for
non-technical reasons? In other words, is it worth trying to debug my
installation or are there known problems on which you already gave up?

Comment 2 Zenon Panoussis 2004-01-02 00:21:52 UTC

Downgrading to mailman-2.1.1-4 from RH9 updates (also locally
compiled) solved all problems described in the previous entry; it just
works as it should.

Comment 4 dff 2004-10-29 22:01:02 UTC

*** Bug 114664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Aleksey Nogin 2004-10-29 23:01:09 UTC

This is marked as MODIFIED - does this mean that there are plans to
add mailman to RHEL 3?

Comment 6 David Juran 2005-03-29 09:21:22 UTC

Since mailman was included into RHEL4 and also into RHEL3 in some errata while
ago I'll close this issue.