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July 2018
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July 6, 2018
Hello,
In the mailing list that I administrate I've set a spam filter rule that
rejects all mail that matches the header
X-Spam-Level: \*{5,}
Any messages that match
X-Spam-Level: \*{2,}
are set on hold. We do this in order to avoid rejecting legitimate
mail.
However this causes problems with addresses on the
discard_these_nonmembers list (that is populated by the mailman
message-on-hold page). If a message arrives that is set on hold due to
the second spam filter rule, it won't …
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discard_these_nonmembers, and the list admins are annoyed by it being
put on hold.
The only solution that I see is to manually create spam filter rules for
the most notorious names on the discard_these_nonmembers list. Is there
a better way to keep graded response to spam and at the same time use
discard_these_nonmembers?
Thanks,
Christoph
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I have mailman-2.1.26 installed on my Gentoo 17.0 application server,
which I just rebooted to update from kernel 4.15.15 to 4.16.13. After
rebooting, mailman would not start, logging the following errors:
Jul 04 14:43:58 2018 mailmanctl(15743): Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 04 14:43:58 2018 mailmanctl(15743): File "bin/mailmanctl", line
556, in <module>
Jul 04 14:43:58 2018 mailmanctl(15743): main()
Jul 04 14:43:58 2018 mailmanctl(15743): File "bin/mailmanctl", line
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Jul 04 14:43:58 2018 mailmanctl(15743): lock = acquire_lock(force)
Jul 04 14:43:58 2018 mailmanctl(15743): File "bin/mailmanctl", line
215, in acquire_lock
Jul 04 14:43:58 2018 mailmanctl(15743): lock = acquire_lock_1(force)
Jul 04 14:43:58 2018 mailmanctl(15743): File "bin/mailmanctl", line
203, in acquire_lock_1
Jul 04 14:43:58 2018 mailmanctl(15743): if not force or
qrunner_state():
Jul 04 14:43:58 2018 mailmanctl(15743): File "bin/mailmanctl", line
187, in qrunner_state
Jul 04 14:43:58 2018 mailmanctl(15743): os.kill(pid, 0)
Jul 04 14:43:58 2018 mailmanctl(15743): OSError : [Errno 1] Operation
not permitted
This looks like it's failing to acquire a lock file. Investigating, I
discovered this:
minbar:root:/var/lib/mailman/logs:18 # ls -l /var/lib/mailman/locks
total 8
-rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 49 Jul 5 2018 master-qrunner
-rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 49 Jul 5 2018 master-qrunner.minbar.4623
The server itself is pretty clear that today is July 4:
minbar:root:/var/lib/mailman/logs:23 # date
Wed Jul 4 14:50:09 EDT 2018
After I deleted the errant lock files, mailman started up without
hesitation ... and AGAIN created lock files timestamped in the future:
minbar:root:/var/lib/mailman/logs:22 # ls -l /var/lib/mailman/locks
total 8
-rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 50 Jul 5 2018 master-qrunner
-rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 50 Jul 5 2018 master-qrunner.minbar.15895
Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?
--
Phil Stracchino
Babylon Communications
phils(a)caerllewys.net
phil(a)co.ordinate.org
Landline: +1.603.293.8485
Mobile: +1.603.998.6958
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