[Mailman-Developers] Major Bug (stop all lists) in mailman 2.0.14

[Silviu Marin-Caea]

Upon receiving a message like bellow (and similar messages) that are
virus social engineering without the viral payload, mailman,
specifically qrunner, chokes for good, and does not deliver any message
that follows, on any list.  There's the relevant excerpt from error log
bellow.  I still have the .msg and .db files that, if moved to
/var/lib/mailman/qfiles, can reproduce the error, always.  They're here:
ftp://ftp.genesys.ro/upload/mailman-error

System is SUSE Openexchange Server 8, but it happened on SUSE LINUX 8.0
Professional too, which used mailman 2.0.x.


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Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): Traceback (most recent call last):
Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964):   File
"/usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner", line
  283, in ?
Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964):      kids = main(lock)
Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964):   File
"/usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner", line
  253, in main
Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964):      keepqueued =
dispose_message(mlist, msg
, msgdata)
Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964):   File
"/usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner", line
  157, in dispose_message
Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964):      mlist.ParseMailCommands(msg)
Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964):   File
"/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailCommand
Handler.py", line 163, in ParseMailCommands
Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): splitsubj = string.split(subject)
Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964):   File
"/usr/lib/python2.2/string.py", line
117, in split
Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964):      return s.split(sep, maxsplit)
Jun 25 13:18:55 2004 qrunner(9964): AttributeError :  'NoneType' object
has no a
ttribute 'split'