[Mailman-Developers] Debugging lost messages?

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:31 PM -0400 2005-10-06, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>  Maybe they're triggering one of your content (or other) filters?  Have
>  you got this list set up to discard non-members or something else of
>  that nature?

	I thought of those.  All non-member postings are supposed to be 
held for moderation, and there's nothing beyond the standard 
out-of-the-box "legacy" anti-spam filters in place for this list.

	I've got a lot of anti-spam filters in SpamAssassin that might 
also be causing these types of postings to be lost (reports from 
BitKeeper, which tend to run afoul of the "Chickenpox" rules), but 
then they shouldn't show up in the postfix log as having been 
delivered to the Mailman "post" process, and they certainly wouldn't 
trip any of the "legacy" spam filters.


	This is what I find so frustrating about debugging this 
particular process.  As far as Mailman is concerned, you really can't 
get too much more plain-jane than what we're running.  And yet, stuff 
has clearly been broken for about a month now, and I can't figure out 
why.


	But if you've got ideas on some places where I can put in some 
further debugging to see what's going on and why, I'll be glad to 
give that a shot.

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