I just noticed that Mailman stopped working about 6 weeks ago. I have a (dv) server at MediaTemple and it runs Plesk 9.x. This has been an issue for a while now, where it randomly stops working. If you have the same issues with Mailman under Plesk, here’s a fix for you. Run the following command:
$ /usr/lib/plesk-9.0/mailman_conf_init /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py qmail
This will force a reconfiguration of Mailman for qmail. After that, restart qmail and Mailman
$ service restart qmail
$ service restart mailman
Found and modified via Plesk forums
Ryan Plesk Email, linux, mailman, Plesk
This morning somebody posted on the Plesk Support Forums that they had a fix for the Mailman issues in Plesk 9.0. They suggested symlinking the mm_wrapper file to the location it should be. On my server, Plesk had a mm_wrapper file at
/usr/lib/plesk-9.0/mm_wrapper
To put it in the correct place run:
cd \var\qmail\bin
ln -s /usr/lib/plesk-9.0/mm_wrapper mm_wrapper
So far, the test emails are going through and being sent back via Mailman with no errors.
Ryan Plesk linux, mailman, Plesk, server
For those of you out there that use Plesk and Mailman, if you have not yet upgraded to 9.0, hold off. Once I upgraded to 9.0, Mailman stopped working. Any email sent to the lists return with this error:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at xxxxxxxxxx.com.
I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.
<xxxx-xxx@xxxxxxx.org>:
preline: fatal: unable to run /var/qmail/bin/mm_wrapper: file does not exist
This has been noted on the Parallels Plesk forums and a few tickets have been opened with Parallels, but no response so far. This seems to be the same treatment we get every time Plesk is upgraded. Parallels breaks things and then expects you to pay for them to be fixed. Its a horrible business model and a lose-lose for Parallels customers.
Ryan Plesk linux, mailman, Plesk, server
