The Mailman web page to approve messages held for approval always has the message: "There are no pending requents," even when there are messages in /var/lib/mailman/data/heldmsg-mynewlist-1.pck

Running Mailman 2.1.15 under Debian Wheezy with a new list that has never existed on any local machine.

1. Mail that does not require approval is posted to the list normally.
2. All web pages with the exception of the one below function normally.
3. Mail from moderated subscribers produces the usual notice to the list admin, but when the page:

http://myserver.net/cgi-bin/mailman/admindb/mynewlist

is visited, this message appears:

"There are no pending requests. Click here to reload this page."

Reloading the page makes no difference.

I tried the hold_again script from here: http://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/scripts/

When the hold_again script is run, this is the result:

root@ /usr/lib/mailman/bin# ./hold_again -n -v -l mynewlist Requeueing message from file heldmsg-mynewlist-1.pck

The held message is in the data directory:

root@:/var/lib/mailman/data# ls -l -rw-r----- 1 root list 41 May 3 2013 adm.pw -rw-rw---- 1 root list 1997 Nov 6 2012 aliases -rw-rw---- 1 list list 12288 Nov 6 2012 aliases.db [...] -rw-rw-r-- 1 list list 775 Mar 25 16:11 heldmsg-mynewlist-1.pck [...] -rw-rw-r-- 1 root list 10 Jul 13 2012 last_mailman_version -rw-r--r-- 1 root list 14100 Jun 16 2012 sitelist.cfg -rw-rw---- 1 root list 1831 Nov 6 2012 virtual-mailman -rw-rw---- 1 list list 12288 Nov 6 2012 virtual-mailman.db

The hold_again command results in a new notice to the list admin re the held message, but revisiting the web page shows the same "There are no pending requests" message.

Responding via email to the list admin message with an "Approved: listadminpswd" header" results in a copy of the sent message being sent to the list admin, but no action re the held message; it's still held, with the same timestamp.

The server is running apache 2.4.6-3.

The mailman.conf file in /etc/apache2/sites-available has:

# Sample configuration for Debian mailman with Apache

# We can find mailman here: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/ # And the public archives: Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ # Logos: Alias /images/mailman/ /usr/share/images/mailman/

# Use this if you don't want the "cgi-bin" component in your URL: # In case you want to access mailman through a shorter URL you should enable # this: #ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/ # In this case you need to set the DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN in # /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py to http://%s/mailman/ for the cookie # authentication code to work. Note that you need to change the base # URL for all the already-created lists as well.

<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Require all granted </Directory> <Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/> Options FollowSymlinks AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> <Directory /usr/share/images/mailman/> AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory>

I've spent hours trying to resolve this problem. Any help would be much appreciated.

TIA,

-rex