[Mailman-Users] qrunner -- problem with huge mail messages

[Dirko van Schalkwyk]

Hi

I have the following situation : 

Mailman 2.0.5 
Python 2.0
MTA : postfix

I set Mailman up, created a test list and played with it
for a while.
Then I send it a big "whopper" 5MB e-mail. I watched the
logs and saw
postfix running the wrapper. The cron started qrunner and
all hell broke
lose (over dramatizing a bit). It started running at 100%
CPU, where it
stayed until I killed it. The message was queued in
$prefix/qfiles, it
and its little .db file. I had to remove those as well as
the locks in
$prefix/locks before I could successfully use the list
again.

So I thought, "well maybe the pipermail thingy can't
handle the huge
mime thingies I'm sending it". So I send a smaller
attachment <150kb.
Things went fine (except for the ugly html page:) ) Send
it a 1MB
attachment. qrunner started spinning it's wheels again.
Had to seek and
destroy again.

So I replaced pipermail with MHonArc (With
PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER ,
PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER , PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL in
mm_cfg.py and the
appropriate thingies in httpd.conf). Small messages
worked fine. Big 
whoppers = no joy i.e. still the same with big messages.
So at least it
is not the archiving bit that messes up.

So I upgraded my Python ;) Ermm, to version 2.0. Still
the same.

Has anyone had the same problem? Can anyone confirm this
as a bug by
sending a 2MB file to a 2.0.5 testlist? 

How do I do a trace in Python? (i.e. it is as familiar to
me as the
bacteria in my stomach (I runs on my machine and there
endeth the
relationship))

Any pointers? Anything? 


Greets

Dirko

Lab E352
E&E Engineering
Univ. of Stellenbosch
South Africa