[Mailman-Developers] Re: message is unparsable and lost data files for filebase

[totschnig.michael@uqam.ca]

Dan Mick <dmick@utopia.West.Sun.COM> wrote:

> totschnig.michael@uqam.ca wrote:
> > 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've got the following two lines in a recent CVS Mailman's error log.
>> 
>> Mar 20 13:14:52 2002 (29950) message is unparsable: 1016648091.497946+bac3be516f3338dba5c030fac9372443209a4c6b
>> Mar 20 13:14:52 2002 (29950) lost data files for filebase: 1016648091.497946+bac3be516f3338dba5c030fac9372443209a4c6b
>> 
>> Is this something I should worry about? The message it is talking
>> about, is it a mail Mailman should have processed. There is no entry
>> at that time in the post log.
>
> You can probably find it in the qfiles/bad directory, and it's probably
> a mis-formatted MIME message.

Thank you for your reply! Unfortunately there is no bad directory in
the qfiles directory. It only contains, the following.

archive  bounces  commands  in  news  out  shunt  virgin

But by comparing with the MTA's log file, I could understand that the
message in question has probably been spam. Is there another place
where mailman could have put it for inspection, or do I have to change
the configuration to keep track of such problems?

Michael