I've seen a number of posts (courtesy of Google) about this topic, yet not a single one noted a solution. All either were resolved with,

1. upgrade and it will go away (I have the latest of everything)
2. "this only happens on spam (bad header), don't worry about it."
3. you are using a RH RPM install that is broken.

Well, in my case I'm on a debian system (code via apt-get) running mailman-2.1.2-6. I have about 12 mailing-lists all seem to function without an issue except for one. Anytime anyone mails to it, the message gets "Shunned" and I see this error in the log/error file (mind you the message is obsoletely fine - its as though there is lock someone that is forcing all legit messages to be shunned).

Aug 13 16:40:05 2003 (13248) Uncaught runner exception: Empty module name Aug 13 16:40:05 2003 (13248) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipel ine sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 89, in process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 130, in send_digest s send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 303, in send_i18n_d igests msg = scrubber(mlist, msg) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 308, in process t = t.encode(charset, 'replace') File "/usr/lib/python2.2/encodings/__init__.py", line 51, in search_function mod = __import__(modname,globals(),locals(),'*') ValueError: Empty module name

Aug 13 16:40:05 2003 (13248) SHUNTING: 1060794892.466989+1b026fcd575182e5c957eae f9f3caac319c9a8e3

If I try to 'unshunt' the message - nothing happens and it simply pops back into the qfiles/shunt dir. I have hoards of people waiting for this to get resolved and I've tried asking anyone who would listen on IRC (irc.freenode.net #mailman and/or #debian) to no avail. The website was no help at all (there is no mention of 'shunting' even and alot of the info is rather dated).

Could someone please lend a helping hand _ASAP_ ?

I'm not on the list, so please CC your replies.

Regards,

• Nadim

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