[Mailman-Users] vette log/discarded messages

[Mark Sapiro]

Christopher Adams wrote:

>I am following up a previous message about failure to post to a list. As 
>I said, the Postfix/maillog shows that it was sent. However, the 
>mailman/post log shows nothing. The mailman/vette log shows:
>
>Jan 28 11:32:23 2005 (20467) Message discarded, msgid: 
><41FA9591.5030606 at wherever.com
>
>I am sending as a non-moderated member and have tried changing various 
>options for sending from non-members, moderated members, etc. It is set 
>to discard automatically from a non-member. However, it looks like it is 
>just discarding everything from everyone. I have many other lists and 
>have never seen this behavior. The only thing significantly different 
>about this list is that there are 38,000 members and the list is updated 
>monthly by a script. It is possible that file permissions were changed, 
>but I checked that and it doesn't seem to be anything that would affect 
>this.

And previously

>However, there is no entry in the post log and the message is never 
>delivered. This is a consistent problem for this particular person. 
>There are no error messages sent back to her or messages to me as the 
>mailman-owner.

I'm confused as to whether this affects all users, just one user or
maybe a few?

My thought is that you may have

USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER = Yes

in mm_cfg.py and this person's e-mail arrives with a different envelpe
sender than her subscribed address.

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