Bugs item #558633, was opened at 2002-05-21 08:01 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=558633&group_id=103
Category: mail delivery Group: 2.0.x Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nigel Metheringham (nigel) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Blocked queue after fight with Majordomo
Initial Comment: On Mailman 2.0.8 (was honestly going to upgrade today!).
It appears that a couple of messages were boucing between the mailman request addresses and a Majordomo server, with more error transcript being added to the message on each bounce. This then appeared to completely block the qrunner. Removing the 2 huge messages from the qfiles directory fixed it.
Broken message qfiles attached.
Comment By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-05-21 16:47
Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800
Heh, I think this is a general problem when you get two email robots talking to each other! In MM2.1cvs the robot will refuse to respond to a message marked Precedence: bulk|junk|list -- but it looks like that wouldn't have even helped in this case (since the Majordomo server isnt' setting that header ;/ )
The only other solution I can think of is to add a config variable which is a blacklist of known addresses (regexps) that Mailman should not respond too. You'd still get into the robot infloop the first time, but at least you'd have a hope of avoiding subsequent replybot storms for the same address.
Comment By: Nigel Metheringham (nigel) Date: 2002-05-21 08:03
Message: Logged In: YES user_id=31288
and other file
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