[Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Bugs-558633 ] Blocked queue after fight with Majordomo

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Bugs item #558633, was opened at 2002-05-21 08:01
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Category: mail delivery
Group: 2.0.x
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nigel Metheringham (nigel)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Blocked queue after fight with Majordomo

Initial Comment:
On Mailman 2.0.8 (was honestly going to upgrade today!).

It appears that a couple of messages were boucing
between the mailman request addresses and a Majordomo
server,
with more error transcript being added to the message
on each bounce.   This then appeared to completely 
block the qrunner.   Removing the 2 huge messages
from the qfiles directory fixed it.


Broken message qfiles attached.


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>Comment By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2002-05-21 16:47

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=12800

Heh, I think this is a general problem when you get two
email robots talking to each other!  In MM2.1cvs the robot
will refuse to respond to a message marked Precedence:
bulk|junk|list -- but it looks like that wouldn't have even
helped in this case (since the Majordomo server isnt'
setting that header ;/ )

The only other solution I can think of is to add a config
variable which is a blacklist of known addresses (regexps)
that Mailman should not respond too.  You'd still get into
the robot infloop the first time, but at least you'd have a
hope of avoiding subsequent replybot storms for the same
address.


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Comment By: Nigel Metheringham (nigel)
Date: 2002-05-21 08:03

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=31288

and other file

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