[Mailman-Developers] A (the?) MIME digest / MTA problem

[John Viega]

Odd.  I can't think of anything I know of that would give that sort of
behavior.  Can you look at one of these digests and see if there is
anything suspect about them??

John

On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 02:05:53AM +0300, Janne Sinkkonen wrote:
> 
> There exists a problem with MIME digests of b4 and some
> MTAs. Something in some digests makes the receiving end to think that
> it has received the whole message, while the sending MTA (mine was
> sendmail 8.8.5, now 8.9.1) thinks it failed and leaves the message to
> the spool. The message needs to be removed manually, for otherwise the
> poor subscriber will get a copy of it every time the mail queue is
> run, indefinitely.
> 
> Does anybody know a remedy? I'm leaving for a holiday soon, and
> wouldn't like to write a script to be able to delete digests through
> my mobile phone...
> 
> A maybe-related problem is that some messages are left to the mail
> spool even if they are expired. Apparently his has only happened with
> mailman, not with majordomo. (I just deleted a few thousands, the
> oldest dated May 1998.) Sounds like a sendmail problem, but I don't
> understand how it's related to mailman.
> 
> -- 
> Janne
> 
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