I built an Ubuntu package for the patched Mailman 2.1.9, and when
I tried to install it this morning, there was an error message
stating that
The directory /var/lib/mailman/qfiles contains files.
It needs to be empty for the upgrade work properly.
I looked at that directory, and I found a number of
bounces/xxxxx.bak
files. Per a reply posting on 12 Feb-2008 by Mark Sapiro
(Subject: [Mailman-Users] bounce file questions)
I moved those files elsewhere (for further study). Then I was able to
install the updated Mailman 2.1.9 package. Mark wrote:
Yes, it's safe to delete. It is the backup of the file that
BounceRunner was processing when something happened, and
BounceRunner never 'finished' processing the file. There
was a hole that allowed this to occur on an 'unparseable'
(almost always spam) message in 2.1.9, no whenever you get
the "Ignoring unparseable message" in the error log, the
.bak file is left behind. This is fixed in 2.1.10n now in
beta.
I looked at the logs and found an unparseable rejection message.
I am including it below. I am not sure what the problem is, but I
believe that the
content-type: message/rfc822
attachment contains the beginning of the original MIME-encoded
posting, and Mailman is getting confused with this MIME-within-MIME.
Here is a message from the Mailman error log:
Uncaught runner exception: No terminating boundary and no trailing
empty line
Here is the traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 100, in _oneloop
msg, msgdata = self._switchboard.dequeue(filebase)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 164, in dequeue
msg = email.message_from_string(msg, Message.Message)
File "/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/__init__.py", line 51, in
message_from_string
return Parser(_class, strict=strict).parsestr(s)
File "/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 75, in parsestr
return self.parse(StringIO(text), headersonly=headersonly)
File "/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 64, in parse
self._parsebody(root, fp, firstbodyline)
File "/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 240, in _parsebody
msgobj = self.parsestr(part)
File "/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 75, in parsestr
return self.parse(StringIO(text), headersonly=headersonly)
File "/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 64, in parse
self._parsebody(root, fp, firstbodyline)
File "/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 265, in _parsebody
msg = self.parse(fp)
File "/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 64, in parse
self._parsebody(root, fp, firstbodyline)
File "/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 206, in _parsebody
raise Errors.BoundaryError(
BoundaryError: No terminating boundary and no trailing empty line
Am I correct in my diagnosis? And is this (i.e., the unparseability)
something that can be corrected? Thanks.
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