[Mailman-Users] Question about sync_members

[Richard Barrett]

At 19:53 07/11/2002, Jim Tomasello wrote:
>Good afternoon. I'm running a new setup of mailman, the version that comes 
>with Red Hat 8.0. My problem isn't with Mailman per se, but with the 
>sync_members script that comes with it.
>

Its better to specify the actual Mailman version number but lets assume 
that it is 2.0.x

>I am trying to load members from a text file. The file has one email 
>address per line and contains 2,086 emails. When I run the script using 
>the following command while logged in as root, "./sync_members -n -w=no 
>-a=no -f members realtor-members", doing the dry run, everything seems 
>fine. When I remove the -n parameter to run it live, it gets through 2,043 
>emails and then generates the following error:
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./sync_members", line 257, in ?
>     main()
>   File "./sync_members", line 240, in main
>     welcome, notifyadmin)
>   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1054, in ApprovedAddMember
>     raise e, v
>Mailman.Errors.MMBadEmailError
>Now I've looked at the addresses around the one it appears to be dying on, 
>and they look fine. I have no idea what this is telling me the problem is. 
>I've looked in the /var/logs/mailman dir to see if I can find any evidence 
>of what's going on, to no avail. Anyone out there have any idea where I 
>should start looking to figure this one out? Any help would be appreciated.
>

Looking at the MM 2.0.13 code.

The only circumstance that I can see where Errors.MMBadEmailError is raised 
without  sync_members printing something like this and exiting:

Invalid :  <faulty email address>'
You must fix the preceding invalid addresses first.

is if  the maillist's own email address is on the list., i.e. you are 
trying to subscribe the list to itself.. Could that be the case??

This error is generated at line 970 of $prefix/Mailman/MailList.py in 
function AddMember.