[email protected] wrote: > >On 2 Mar 2009 at 10:24, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> >> Are you also getting many errors like the following? >> >> >Mar 02 10:39:54 2009 (30278) Failed to unlink/preserve backup file: >> >/var/mailman/qfiles/in/1236014500.0552149+5aed32c1bfbe6e4ac85c02c3518 >> >5 46e179e37b02.bak > >Yes: > >Mar 02 11:23:49 2009 (13849) Skipping and preserving unparseable >message: 1236014500.0552149+80fb5a8a97a8d0c248a1d845d2d05094c2a5fa49 >Mar 02 11:23:49 2009 (13849) Failed to unlink/preserve backup file: >/var/mailman/qfiles/out/1236014500.0552149+80fb5a8a97a8d0c248a1d845d2d >05094c2a5fa49.bak
Unfortunately, I neglected to put the actual error in the above log message - one more thing for 2.2 :) This seems to say there is an error in trying to move the .bak backup queue entry for the unparseable message to a .psv entry in the qfiles/bad queue. I don't know why. >Since the only thing on the server that is (intentionally) using >Python, I deleted the /lib/python2.5 and /usr/lib/python2.5 >directories and have reinstalled Python, reinstalled Mailman and >rebooted the server. > >It appears to have cleared things up as I ran unshunt and now all of >the qfiles except bad are empty and several previously shunted emails >are delivering. Well, perhaps we'll never understand fully what the issues were, but I'm glad it's OK now. Those .psv files in qfiles/bad are the unparseable messages. Almost certainly, they are spam in a malformed MIME message. if you're curious, you can examine them with 'bin/dumpdb -p'. With default settings, they will be discarded by cron/cull_bad_shunt after 7 days. -- 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
