[Mailman-Developers] Well, here's an interesting one

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "RJ" == Ron Jarrell <jarrell@vt.edu> writes:

    RJ> Apr 10 03:19:57 2002 (12285) message is unparsable:
    RJ> 1018423196.419311+a81685d7af 1f6631ce6392a83aff01fde476543f
    RJ> Apr 10 03:19:57 2002 (12285) lost data files for filebase:
    RJ> 1018423196.419311+a81 685d7af1f6631ce6392a83aff01fde476543f

    RJ> I don't mind the unparseability so much as the fact that it
    RJ> lost the files, so now I can't see *why* it was unparseable...

    RJ> Based on the syslog, I see which one it must have been.  Looks
    RJ> like it was spam anyway, so hopefully it was just their
    RJ> spamming package mangling the message.

Set QRUNNER_SAVE_BAD_MESSAGES = 1 in your mm_cfg.py file and the
unparseable messages will be left in qfiles/bad/*.txt.

I agree it was likely spam because (most) legit mail is promerly MIME
chromed.  I'm not psyched about trying harder to parse or handle
legitimate, but incorrectly MIME chromed messages. :/

-Barry