[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.9 List Problem

[Mark Sapiro]

Bejong, Kay wrote:
> 
>We are running Mailman 2.1.9 and  had a moderated list with 17,000 users
>which had several issues and I was wondering whether anyone has noticed
>this behavior:
>1. list members were able to reply to all


I do not understand what this means. Do you mean that a moderated
member was able to post to the list without the post being held, or do
you mean something else?


>2. http interface became unusable
>3. list members sent Unsubscribe message to all users on the list and it
>was not filtered as an admin request, even though configured to do so.
>4. command lines "hung" and were unresponsive.


2. and 4. sound like a stale lock problem. See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.076.htp>.

For 3., the filtering of administrivia from the list is very simplistic.

For a message to be detected as administrivia, it must have fewer than
DEFAULT_MAIL_COMMANDS_MAX_LINES (default 25) non-empty body lines
preceding a "-- " signature separator, and then the body must either
consist of a single command word, or there must be within the Subject:
line and the first 5 body lines, a line that looks like an email
command with an appropriate number of arguments.

I.e., a message that has a line

  Unsubscribe me from this list

will not be detected as administrivia because the "Unsubscribe" command
has too many arguments.

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