This is really not a bug in Mailman - though I think the new series (ver 2.1.x) checks for this condition and "fixes" it. I believe this is caused by some Mailers that leave off the From: or misconfigure it. This issue was discussed in detail on the list about a year ago.
Jon Carnes On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 15:13, Greg Ward wrote: > My usual mode of interaction with Mailman is via the command-line -- > this web stuff is just too newfangled. Thus, whenever I want to look in > a list's archive, I generally run "mutt -f" on the archive mbox file. > > I have noticed that many Mailman mbox archives are just a tad bogus: > ie. they start with a blank line rather than a "From " line, eg. > > $ head -2 archives/private/microscope-list.mbox/microscope-list.mbox > > >From microscope-list-admin Thu Jan 28 10:11:07 1999 > > Naturally, mutt complains that this is not a valid mbox file. > > Is this an old bug that was fixed long ago, and does not affect new > lists? Or can this still happen with the current Mailman? (I'm in the > process of switching from 2.0.12 to 2.1b3+.) > > My usual workaround is to look over both shoulders to make sure no one's > watching, cross my fingers and hope that no posts come in in the next > few seconds, and manually remove the offending blank line with a text > editor. Is there a better way? > > Thanks -- > > Greg > -- > Greg Ward - software developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MEMS Exchange http://www.mems-exchange.org > > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
