[Mailman-Users] IncomingRunner reached maximum restart

[George Sexton]

You are correct. This was SuSE Linux 10.1, which appears to be 2.1.7 
with a lot of patches.

I went ahead and installed 2.1.9 and it seemed to resolve the issue. I'm 
guessing the problem was RFC-2231 file names that spanned multiple 
lines. The outbound message had REALLY long file names.

Once I installed 2.1.9, the person was able to send the message.

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
>   
>> George Sexton wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> When the IncomingRunner dies, the new message appears in the qfiles/in 
>>> folder with an extension of .bak. I've tried deleting and re-creating 
>>> the list and it still dies. If I remove the .bak message and re-start 
>>> Mailman, then any queued messages are sent or discarded.
>>>       
>> I've filed a bug report and a patch in the sourceforge tracker.
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1598087&group_id=103&atid=100103
>>
>> It may not apply cleanly to the 2.1.7 version but the point is deleting 
>> lines starting from 'except...' and to the next 'try:' line.
>>
>> The errorneous messages should be shunted and you can check them in 
>> qfiles/shunt directory.
>>     
>
>
> Two things:
>
> If this is really 2.1.7, it is someones package with 2.1.9 backports,
> because .bak files in qfiles directories were only implemented in
> 2.1.9.
>
> I disagree with Tokio about how to fix this. I have attached a comment
> and an alternative patch to Tokio's bug report.
>
>   

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