[Mailman-Users] Catholic Information Network (CIN) Moderators List flooded with blank emails

[Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT)]

Here are one of the headers of blank email.  Fr. Gant

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Jon Carnes wrote:

> I agree with Greg: "Yikes!"
> This is not a characteristic of Mailman, but sounds more like an MTA
> problem.  You may have a mail loop setup somewhere in your alias or redirect
> files.
>
> If you could forward some of the headers to us, we could trace the mail for
> you and give better input as to where the problem may lay.
> Of course the best place to look is in your log files...
>
> Jon Carnes
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Ward" <gward at mems-exchange.org>
> To: "Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT)" <rgant at flash.net>
> Cc: <mailman-users at python.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Catholic Information Network (CIN) Moderators
> List flooded with blank emails
>
> > On 02 October 2001, Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT)
> said:
> > > Since the Catholic Information Network (CIN) changed to the Mailman
> > > program yesterday, our moderators' list (which has 40 to 50
> > > moderators) is flooded with blank emails.
> >
> > Yikes!
> >
> > The first thing I would do is start tailing log files to try and
> > identify a culprit.  Mailman's logs are in ~mailman/logs; I would
> >   tail -f post smtp smtp-failure qrunner
> > for a start.  (Umm, this assumes GNU tail -- older, more primitive
> > Unices are not as capable.  I'm assuming you know something about
> > administering a Unix system, otherwise you probably shouldn't be using
> > Mailman.)
> >
> > Of course, your MTA is also a factor.  Which MTA are you using, anyways?
> > Whatever, I'm presuming you know where its logs are -- go tail them,
> > too.
> >
> > Or hell, just *look* at the logs from overnight, when your poor
> > moderators were getting 100s of messages.  Old info is better than no
> > info.
> >
> >         Greg
> > --
> > Greg Ward - software developer                gward at mems-exchange.org
> > MEMS Exchange                            http://www.mems-exchange.org
> >
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