[Mailman-Developers] Debugging lost messages?

[Brad Knowles]

At 11:51 AM +0200 2005-10-10, Brad Knowles wrote:

>  	Anyway, I should now have the "modname" being printed in the
>  "vette" log, so that I should be able to figure out which handler is
>  causing the inappropriate bounces.  I'll let you know when I find out
>  more.

	Okay, I think I found the offending module.  Hold.py will syslog 
to "vette", if the message is being held.  But Moderate.py will not 
syslog anything -- it passes a held message to Hold.py, but handles 
rejections and discards itself.

	Moreover, Moderate.py uses two different methods of handling 
rejections and discards -- subscribers are handled in-line, while 
non-subscribers are handled through the do_reject() and do_discard() 
subroutines.  And that's the only place the do_reject() and 
do_discard() subroutines are used.


	So, I can't even just drop in a bit of logging in the do_reject() 
and do_discard() subroutines, since they aren't both used for 
subscribers and non-subscribers alike.  Sigh....


	Can a real Python programmer suggest some changes that would 
create syslog messages for rejects and discards for both subscribers 
and non-subscribers alike, and maybe re-factor the code to re-use the 
do_discard() and do_reject() subroutines, or do I need to try to 
fumble around and fix these myself?

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