[Mailman-Users] Demime is what's killing my archives!!!

[Bob Puff@NLE]

Ok, after a lot of messing around this evening, I found the source of the problem of why my mailman archives stopped working.  The problems started exactly when I added DEMIME!  

First, here's my ALIAS file line that calls demime (version 0.97c):

testlist: "|/home/mailman/mail/demime.pl - |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post testlist"

Now here's what I discovered, after analyzing the headers of the messages that worked, and the ones that didn't.

The very first line of the header normally starts with "From "... This first line seems to be getting swallowed by demime, even if the message has no HTML / MIME, or anything that needs attention.

Here are two messages: the first one is WITHOUT demime, and the second is WITH demime installed on my "testlist":

>From bob at nleaudio.com  Fri Nov 10 22:58:44 2000
Delivered-To: testlist at nlenet.net
Received: from ns.nlenet.net (ns.nlenet.net [64.65.206.24])
        by main.nlenet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E08E3BC1
        for <testlist at nleaudio.com>; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 22:58:44 -0500 (EST)
Received: from nleaudio.com (nle.m0.nlenet.net [192.168.2.9])
        by ns.nlenet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B297E76FE
        for <testlist at nleaudio.com>; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 22:58:43 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <3A0CC48D.B305618B at nleaudio.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:01:17 -0500
From: "Bob Puff at NLE" <bob at nleaudio.com>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: testlist at nleaudio.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: [Testlist] test
Sender: testlist-admin at nleaudio.com
Errors-To: testlist-admin at nleaudio.com
X-BeenThere: testlist at nleaudio.com
X-Mailman-Version: 2.0rc1
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: testlist at nleaudio.com 
List-Post: <mailto:testlist at nleaudio.com>
List-Subscribe: <http://nleaudio.com/mailman/listinfo/testlist>,
        <mailto:testlist-request at nleaudio.com?subject=subscribe>
List-Id: <testlist.nleaudio.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://nleaudio.com/mailman/listinfo/testlist>,
        <mailto:testlist-request at nleaudio.com?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://nleaudio.com/pipermail/testlist/>

test without demime


Return-Path: <bob at nleaudio.com>
Delivered-To: testlist at nlenet.net
Received: from ns.nlenet.net (ns.nlenet.net [64.65.206.24]) by
  main.nlenet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A857A3BC1 for
  <testlist at nleaudio.com>; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:00:49 -0500 (EST)
Received: from nleaudio.com (nle.m0.nlenet.net [192.168.2.9]) by
  ns.nlenet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7526E76FE for
  <testlist at nleaudio.com>; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:00:49 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <3A0CC50B.95E0A94E at nleaudio.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:03:23 -0500
From: "Bob Puff at NLE" <bob at nleaudio.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: testlist at nleaudio.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: [Testlist] test 2
Sender: testlist-admin at nleaudio.com
Errors-To: testlist-admin at nleaudio.com
X-BeenThere: testlist at nleaudio.com
X-Mailman-Version: 2.0rc1
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: testlist at nleaudio.com
List-Help: <mailto:testlist-request at nleaudio.com?subject=help>
List-Post: <mailto:testlist at nleaudio.com>
List-Subscribe: <http://nleaudio.com/mailman/listinfo/testlist>,
        <mailto:testlist-request at nleaudio.com?subject=subscribe>
List-Id: <testlist.nleaudio.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://nleaudio.com/mailman/listinfo/testlist>,
        <mailto:testlist-request at nleaudio.com?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://nleaudio.com/pipermail/testlist/>

test 2 with demime
           
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Note that I also tried a blank demime_junkmail.cf file - no difference.
As you can see from these messages, Msg #2 has one line missing at the top compared to message #1.  And apparently, Mailman's html archiver looks for that, and needs it to work properly.

Help!

Bob