[Mailman-Users] IncomingRunner reached maximum restart

[Mark Sapiro]

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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