[Mailman-Users] New install: Uncaught runner exception: nothing torepeat

[Dwight Tovey]

Dwight Tovey said:
>
> Mark Sapiro said:
>> You're almost there. If you look at lines 97 and 98 in
>> /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SpamDetect.py, you'll see
>>
>>     for header, regex in mm_cfg.KNOWN_SPAMMERS:
>>         cre = re.compile(regex, re.IGNORECASE)
>>
>> Thus, the bad regex is in the KNOWN_SPAMMERS list in mm_cfg.py.
>>
>> Note that the format of this list is for example
>>
>> KNOWN_SPAMMERS = [
>>     ('subject', '.*[s$]ex'),
>>     ('header2', 'regex2'),
>>     ('header3', 'regex3')
>>     ]
>>
>> Also, see the discussion in Defaults.py about KNOWN_SPAMMERS in
>> Defaults.py. It may be preferable to use Privacy options...Spam
>> filters in the list configuration.
>>
>
> Thanks.  I saw my problem with the KNOWN_SPAMMERS, but after fixing it I
> still the same error.  I even removed KNOWN_SPAMMERS from my mm_cfg.py and
> I still get the error.
>
> Looking at the code in SpamDetect,  I don't see how it could get that
> error without KNOWN_SPAMMERS defined.  It shouldn't enter the loop at all.
>  Is the config file cached somewhere?
>

Nevermind.  Dumb mistake.  I forgot to restart the Mailman daemons after
modifying mm_cfg.  Once I did that and ran the 'unshunt' program, the
admin messages went through OK.  Now on with the rest of my testing.

Thanks again.

    /dwight

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