[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman 2.0.12 error

[G. Armour Van Horn]

I believe I was the first to report the problem last week, and I felt a certain
relief as other reported it since - I had already been through the fire. Alas, it
bit me again yesterday and one client was fuming this morning because a
time-sensitive message didn't get delivered.

I started pulling things out of /home/mailman/qfiles and putting them back in,
and I note that all three messages that stop the queue contained "confirm"
followed by a six digit number.

I didn't notice whether they were requests to confirm a new subscription, or
replies to them. For the first couple I just noted the address in question and
wrote it down for manual followup, then deleted the message. On the third message
I thought to look more closely, and it was a reply to a request to confirm.

Hope that helps with fixing the problem.

Van

"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:

> >>>>> "KW" == Kory Wheatley <wheakory at isu.edu> writes:
>
>     KW> This is very critical I get this fixed, I'm running 150
>     KW> production mailing lists, here's my problem.
>
> Apply the following patch.
>
> Mailman 2.0.12 had compatibility issues with Python 1.5.2.  Later
> today I will post a candidate patch for 2.0.13 to fix this and one or
> two other small issues.
>
> -Barry
>
> -------------------- snip snip --------------------
> Index: MailCommandHandler.py
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/mailman/mailman/Mailman/Attic/MailCommandHandler.py,v
> retrieving revision 1.70.2.1
> retrieving revision 1.70.2.2
> diff -u -r1.70.2.1 -r1.70.2.2
> --- MailCommandHandler.py       2 Jul 2002 16:33:23 -0000       1.70.2.1
> +++ MailCommandHandler.py       11 Jul 2002 21:19:34 -0000      1.70.2.2
> @@ -120,8 +120,8 @@
>          # of these clues, so there's little we can do to break loops in that
>          # case, except throttle the number of responses sent to any one
>          # requester in a day.  That's a job for MM2.1.
> -        precedence = msg.get('precedence', '').lower()
> -        ack = msg.get('x-ack', '').lower()
> +        precedence = string.lower(msg.get('precedence', ''))
> +        ack = string.lower(msg.get('x-ack', ''))
>          beenthere = msg.get('x-beenthere', '')
>          listid = msg.get('list-id', '')
>          if (precedence in ('bulk', 'list', 'junk') or
>
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