Mailman 3 Service and Troubleshooting

Service Configuration and Installation

There are two services needed:

systemctl status mailman3   # AKA mailman-core you only need this for lists to work
systemctl status mailmanweb # AKA hyperkitty, postorius, uwsgi, django hell, needed for the web interface

Troubleshooting

Where is everything logged?

Don't think you can start understand anything without at least doing the following:

• mailman core

tail -f /home/mailman/we.lurk.org/mm/var/logs/*
tail -f /var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.log /var/log/mail.warn
journalctl --follow _SYSTEMD_UNIT=mailman3.service + _SYSTEMD_UNIT=mariadb.service

• web stuff

tail -f /home/mailman/we.lurk.org/web/logs/*
tail -f /var/log/nginx/*log

Running mailman standalone

Only do this when manually troubleshooting otherwise this will conflict with systemctl initiated services.

• Mailman 3 relies on its own mailman user to handle the processing of the emails.

su mailman     # switch to the mailman user
cd             # make sure you cd to mailman's home !IMPORTANT

• You're now ready to control mailman
• Everything is handled with the mailman command line tool. Do not run these commands with another user!

mailman status       # report on the service
mailman start        # start mailman
mailman stop         # stop mailman
mailman restart      # stop and start mailman shorcut