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

[Ron Jarrell]

At 01:41 AM 5/6/02 -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

>>>>>> "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.

Actually, I *had* set it.  Other messages since then have been properly dumped into
the file -- and each of them has been a virus that wasn't parseable.  Gee, I consider that
a feature :-).  That one, for some reason, just vanished into thin ether.