Upon receiving a message like bellow (and similar messages) that are virus social engineering without the viral payload, mailman, specifically qrunner, chokes for good, and does not deliver any message that follows, on any list. There's the relevant excerpt from error log bellow. I still have the .msg and .db files that, if moved to /var/lib/mailman/qfiles, can reproduce the error, always. They're here: ftp://ftp.genesys.ro/upload/mailman-error

System is SUSE Openexchange Server 8, but it happened on SUSE LINUX 8.0 Professional too, which used mailman 2.0.x.

From zoltank67@hotmail.com Thu Jun 24 22:42:00 2004 Return-Path: <zoltank67@hotmail.com> Delivered-To: networking-request@genesys.ro Received: from mail.genesys.ro (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.genesys.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 373B96BA85 for <networking-request@genesys.ro>; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:42:00 +0300 (EEST) Received: by mail.genesys.ro (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 24F906E21E; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:42:00 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hotmail.com (bay8-f8.bay8.hotmail.com [64.4.27.8]) by mail.genesys.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D926E21A for <networking-request@genesys.ro>; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:41:58 +0300 (EEST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:41:55 -0700 Received: from 80.97.222.9 by by8fd.bay8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:41:55 GMT X-Originating-IP: [80.97.222.9] X-Originating-Email: [zoltank67@hotmail.com] X-Sender: zoltank67@hotmail.com From: "Keresztes Zoltan" <zoltank67@hotmail.com> To: networking-request@genesys.ro Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:41:55 +0300 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <BAY8-F8Y9IuXZ2y2Fko000034a2@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Jun 2004 19:41:55.0660 (UTC) FILETIME=[4E4338C0:01C45A23] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mail.genesys.ro X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS autolearn=no version=2.63 X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender POSTFIX 1.5.7 on mail

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Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): Traceback (most recent call last): Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 283, in ? Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): kids = main(lock) Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 253, in main Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): keepqueued = dispose_message(mlist, msg , msgdata) Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 157, in dispose_message Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): mlist.ParseMailCommands(msg) Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailCommand Handler.py", line 163, in ParseMailCommands Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): splitsubj = string.split(subject) Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/string.py", line 117, in split Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): return s.split(sep, maxsplit) Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): AttributeError : 'NoneType' object has no a ttribute 'split'