[Mailman-Users] Too many digests, at unexpected times

[Matt Morgan]

I'm trying to set up a list that's going to go out only as digests, once a
week. The list is called "consdistlist."

Right now I just have three subscribers, all different email addresses
belonging to me. I have applied Mark Sapiro's recent patch that allows the
-e option (aka --exceptlist) on mailman/cron/senddigests.

In cron, as of an hour ago or so, I have

# Mail digests for lists that do periodic as well as threshhold delivery.
# this one does everything except consdistlist daily at noon
0 12 * * * /usr/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests -e
consdistlist

# this one does only consdistlist on Mondays at 4AM
0 4 * * 1 /usr/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests -l
consdistlist

So I made that change and then sent a four test emails in to the list, one
or two from each of the three subscriber accounts. I then went into the
moderation panel and accepted the four messages (all postings must be
moderated).

Moments later, not tomorrow at 4AM, in two of the three accounts I got four
separate digests (volume 1 issues 3, 4, 5, and 6--this is not my first
attempt), each with one of the four new messages in it.

I then went back 20 minutes later after checking everything, and sent two
more messages, and accepted them. Again, they came right away, as separate
digests with one message each in them. So I got something very wrong. But I
don't understand ... senddigests shouldn't even be running right now.

Here's my digest config on consdistlist:

digestable=Yes
digest_is_default=Digest
mime_is_default_digest=Plain
digest_size_threshold=0
digest_send_periodic=No

(I don't think the rest is relevant, but I haven't tried adding anything to
the header or footer yet, and digest_volume_frequency=Monthly).

What can I try next?

Thanks,
Matt