[Mailman-Developers] Important Mailman 2.1.9 to 2.1.10 upgrade note.

[David Lee]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Actually, this note really applies to just restarting mailman a Mailman
> 2.1.9 installation, with or without upgrading to Mailman 2.1.10. But in
> installations that just 'run' without intervention, this restart may not
> occur until an upgrade.
>
> There is an error in Mailman 2.1.9. In the introduction of the backup
> and recovery of queue entries, we neglected to remove the backup queue
> entry for an unparseable message. Thus, if you sometimes receive
> unparseable messages which are ignored, you may have an accumulation of
> .bak files in qfiles/in from these messages. When you restart Mailman,
> these will all be reprocessed, resulting in a flood of error log entries.
>
> There is no real harm done, but it would be a good idea when upgrading
> to stop Mailman and remove any qfiles/in/*.bak files.

Just a thought, Mark, for consideration...

If this is deemed "Important" (for anyone upgrading over the next year or
more), and if this cleaning process is well-defined and capable of
mechanisation, then might it be worth superseding 2.1.10 with a "2.1.10a"
(or 2.1.11 or whatever nomeclature is appropriate) that automatically does
this cleaning?

(I realise that 2.1.x was intended to be frozen at 2.1.10, but wasn't
there allowance for significant security fixes and bug fixes?)


(Only sending this to -developers list.)

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