On 2/20/22 01:56, Mark Sapiro wrote:
First, If your Mailman core version is >= 3.3.5, you shouldn't be running gatenews via cron. Mailman's nntp runner runs it. See https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/NEWS.h...
But, that probably isn't it because in Mailman >= 3.3.5, running gatenews via cron should produce this error
The gatenews command is run periodically by the nntp runner. If you are running it via cron, you should remove it from the crontab. If you want to run it manually, set _MAILMAN_GATENEWS_NNTP in the environment.However, since you have no lists using a news->mail gateway, you don't need to run gatenews at all so just remove it from the crontab.
I installed Mm3 from Debian stable distro packages as one of the suggested installations methods in Mm3 docs. It's a bit of dated though I know but it was the easiest and fastest.
Mailman Core Version GNU Mailman 3.3.3 (Tom Sawyer) Mailman Core API Version 3.1 Mailman Core Python Version 3.9.2 (default, Feb 28 2021, 17:03:44) [GCC 10.2.1 20210110]
So I disabled gatenews cron job. Maybe later I bite the bullet and upgrade to a recent version (either venv or docker haven't decided yet) but will have to learn how to avoid conflicts with already installed deb packages first. So far so good and everything works, have to check changelogs if an upgrade is worth it.
Thank you all your help, Mark.
Sanyi