[Mailman-Developers] Question about digests

[Greg Swallow]

Hi,

I'm running mailman 2.1.2 on Solaris 9, with Qmail 1.0.3 and Python 
2.2.2.  I'm testing switching mailing lists from our sendmail/majordomo 
system to our qmail/mailman system, and this issue is a showstopper for us.

The issue is that, occasionally, mailman decides to start discarding 
posts to a list that we host.  The vette log states that messages are 
discarded, but nothing else.

At the same time, if I look at the digest.mbox file for this list, all 
posts that are being discarded are also appended to the digest.mbox file 
as they come in.

The digest.mbox file never grew past its default maximum size of 30Kb: 
half an hour after digests were supposed to be sent out, its size was 
29330 bytes.  Only after the list started discarding posts did the size 
of the digest.mbox file grow past its maximum size, to 107Kb.

If I cp digest.mbox digest.mbox.bak ; cat /dev/null > digest.mbox 
everything starts working again, as normal.

Without good logs of what's going on, I have no idea how to pin this 
issue down.  I've also searched all documentation I can find, including 
the mailing list archives for mailman-users and mailman-developers, and 
the only query I can find is my own from 6/1/2003.  Does anyone have any 
ideas?

BTW, please reply back to me directly.  I'm not subscribed to 
mailman-developers.  Thanks in advance.

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