It appears that BounceRunner was indeed dying and I was suffering from this bug:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1394696&group_id=103 I have upgraded my mailman installation to v 2.1.9 and hope that this will fix the problem. Thanks. -Cheema On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:12:18AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > ----- Original Message --------------- > > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Uncaught bounce notifications stop working > From: Mubashir Cheema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:45:01 -0800 > To: [email protected] > > > > >I have a strange problem with a mailman installation on a new server that I > >have not experienced before. Sometimes mailman will forward me bounced > >emails that it cannot process automatically. Other times mailman's bounce > >processer seems to get stuck. It accumulates these emails until I restart > >the server. Then it sends me hundreds of these. I have not been able to > >figure out why it gets stuck. I have been unsuccessful in reproducing the > >problem. > > > It seems that perhaps BounceRunner is dying so the bounces are queued > but not processed until you restart. > > Check Mailman's 'qrunner' and 'error' logs for clues as to why this is > happening. Possibly some malformed spam is being sent to the -bounces > address and causing problems for BounceRunner. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
