FWIW - I just experienced the same symptoms running 2.1b1. _VERY_ embarassing, especially after telling everyone how Mailman would be so much more fun than Majordomo.
> Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:37:54 +0530 (IST) > From: Francis Jayakanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Mailman-Users] looping mails > Precedence: bulk > List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help> > List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Subscribe: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users>, > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe> > List-Id: Mailman mailing list management users <mailman-users.python.org> > List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users>, > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe> > List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/> > > Dear Member: > > We are using mailman for about two years now. We are constantly upgrading > the mailman software as and when the updates are available. We are now > using mailman 2.09 on Redhat Linux 6.0 with sendmail. > > Very often we encounter this problem of some posting, which gets into an > infinite loop. The same message will go on repeating indefinitely. We'll > then have to stop sendmail. Get into the qfiles dir. of mailman. Delete > all the qfiles and also delete the lock file from the the locks dir. If we > don't release the lock, the mails again start getting into the qfiles > area. > > My question is this. Why does mailman behave in this manner all of > sudden. And how do i overcome this problem. Has anybody else encountered > this problem. Once it so happened that just before leaving office I > approved couple of messages and then left for the day. The following > morning to my horror there were 400 odd messages to each of the > subscriber! > > Any leads to this problem will be greatly appreciated. > > bye, > > - Francis > > NCSI, IISc., > Bangalore, India > > > -- Larry Gadallah, VE6VQ larry AT gadallah DOT com 33.06.00.612N 117.07.05.916W 210Z http://www.gadallah.com/~larry Key fingerprint = D6 79 5D 9D 41 27 74 03 68 FD D7 F3 86 68 EB A5 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
