Hi, everyone,
I've just been assigned the task of managing an existing mailman
installation, and it's evidently been having a recurring problem with
lists mysteriously vanishing for some short period of time and then
reappearing, occasionally in a corrupted state (membership list and
config settings hosed, etc.)
The symptoms I've observed are as follows:
1) Mail sent to a list will bounce with a message like the following:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(reason: Data format error)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
list: Mailbox does not exist
501 5.6.0 Data format error
2) Attempting to access the archive web page for the list returns a
"404 Not found" error, although it *is* possible to access the standard
information page about the list.
Relevant system information:
FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0
sendmail 8.12.6
Mailman 2.0.8
The mailman archives are also being archived by mhonarc v.2.5.13;
archiving by mhonarc happens every 15 minutes. It scans for changes in
the mailman archives and then updates its own copy as necessary (at
least, that's how I think it works). I would guess it's possible that
mhonarc is locking the list archive file and causing concurrency issues
and disruptions in the list as a result.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Tom
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