[Mailman-Users] Hyphenated Lists Stopped Working

[Mark Sapiro]

Andrey Falko wrote:
>
>Lists with hyphens like, "-", no longer work. Postix has no trouble 
>delivering mail to these lists to the maildir, but the emails simply lie 
>in /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/cur/ and nothing appears to happen to 
>them..


The files in /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/cur/ probably have names
ending in '1:X' indicating a MaildirRunner processing error.


>Log files show nothing helpful:
>Aug 31 17:32:08 2007 (14022) 
><mailman.0.1188595927.11401.hyphen-ated at reservoir.com> smtp to 
>hyphen-ated for 1 recips, completed in 0.058 seconds
>Aug 31 17:33:12 2007 (14022) 
><mailman.0.1188595990.11581.hyphen-ated at reservoir.com> smtp to 
>hyphen-ated for 1 recips, completed in 0.040 seconds
>Aug 31 17:33:50 2007 (14022)
>Aug 31 17:33:10 2007 (11581) hyphen-ated: held subscription request from 
>falko at reservoir.com


There should be messages in Mailman's error log saying 'Message
apparently not for any list: %s' where the %s is replaced with the
name of the /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/cur/*1:X file.

The bottom line is there is a bug in MaildirRunner.py. It doesn't work
with hyphenated list names as it conflates the last part of the name
with the -bounces, -request, etc. suffixes.

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