[Mailman-Users] Problem in gateway_to_mail processing

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:48 PM -0500 2005-08-21, Martin Wolske wrote:

>                                                  The list was an old
>  one, so as soon as I deleted it, I was able to process through all
>  the lists!  I have no idea why gate_news was hanging on that list,
>  but list_names was not.  Mystery of mysteries!

	You might have had a corrupt list configuration "pickle" -- all 
Mailman 2.1.x list configurations are stored in a binary format on 
disk in a Python format called a "pickle", and these sometimes get 
corrupted.  Mailman should normally be able to deal with this, as it 
can access the backup of the pickle which should be okay, but perhaps 
the backup was also corrupted.

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