-- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is rumored to have mumbled on 7. März 2008 13:12:16 -0800 regarding Re: [Mailman-Users] Old messages in bounces and in:
> Also, There was an oversight having to do with unparseable messages. I > think this is the issue in your case. If you look in mailman's error > log, I think you'll see for each one of these files, an entry like > "Ignoring unparseable message: > 1168304393.8014059+653abf0ec76b61ef5f5245e7f08d944c441bc306". Correct. > If so, > what is happening is malformed MIME messages which are almost > certainly spam are being sent to your list and list-bounces addresses. > This causes the parse error to be logged and the message dropped, but > we neglected to deal with the .bak file. In 2.1.10 we move it aside to > a .psv file in the shunt queue. OK. Those have to be dealt with manually, I guess? > The bottom line, if I am correct, is these are spam and can be safely > just deleted. Thanks. Done. > If you are not ready to upgrade to 2.1.10, We roll our own RPM, based on Red Hat's, so it's a bit of a hassle. Plus, I'd like to help testing, but on a production server with 1,100+ lists I prefer to stick to the stable releases :-) > you can patch 2.1.9. Find > lines 107-109 in Mailman/Queue/Runner.py. They should be > > self._log(e) > syslog('error', 'Ignoring unparseable message: %s', > filebase) > continue > > (the syslog line is wrapped here, but not in the module). Add a line to > make it > > self._log(e) > syslog('error', 'Ignoring unparseable message: %s', > filebase) > self._switchboard.finish(filebase) > continue > > That won't preserve the entry in the shunt queue, but it will prevent > .bak files from accumulating. Thanks. I've made that change. -- Sebastian Hagedorn - RZKR-R1 (Flachbau), Zi. 18, Robert-Koch-Str. 10 Zentrum für angewandte Informatik - Universitätsweiter Service RRZK Universität zu Köln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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