[Mailman-Users] Mailman no longer working or working very slowly

[Mark Sapiro]

Mark Sapiro wrote:

>Steven Jones wrote:
>
>>While looking at the shunt queue I see a all pcks at a certain time (Feb 17 20:21) I have looked at so far have this as a content, instead of normal content.
>>
>>============
>>[root at vuwunicosmtp004 shunt]# /var/mailman/bin/show_qfiles 1197321907.8858631+471a68770096868aa8540e5bf8bc643da86ac63d.pck|moreTraceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/var/mailman/bin/show_qfiles", line 74, in ?
>>====================> 1197321907.8858631+471a68770096868aa8540e5bf8bc643da86ac63d.pck
>>    main()
>>  File "/var/mailman/bin/show_qfiles", line 67, in main
>>    sys.stdout.write(msg.as_string())
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 130, in as_string
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 102, in flatten
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 130, in _write
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 156, in _dispatch
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 230, in _handle_multipart
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 102, in flatten
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 130, in _write
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 156, in _dispatch
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 297, in _handle_message
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 102, in flatten
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 130, in _write
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 156, in _dispatch
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 230, in _handle_multipart
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 102, in flatten
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 130, in _write
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 156, in _dispatch
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 277, in _handle_message_delivery_status
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 102, in flatten
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 130, in _write
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 156, in _dispatch
>>  File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.8-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 274, in _handle_message_delivery_status
>>TypeError: iteration over non-sequence
>
>
>That's not the content of the shunt queue entry, it is the traceback
>from the exception that show_qfiles throws when it attempts to display
>the message because the message is malformed.


BTW, the fact that the above traceback is going through
_handle_message_delivery_status indicates that the message is a DSN
(bounce notice) of some kind (and probably malformed)

If bin/dumpdb throws the same or a similar exception, you can always
use 'strings' to see some of the content.

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