[Mailman-Users] mailman silently fails

[Gaspard Bucher]

Hi !

I am having troubles with a previously working installation of  
mailman: the messages sent to the list are eaten and nothing happens:  
nothing in the logs, nothing sent, no trace in the archives.

I tested the exim4 configuration by replacing the /var/lib/mailman/ 
mail/mailman binary by a custom script capturing parameters and STDIN:
parameters: ["post", "test-news"]

stdin content: "From SENDER EMAIL Mon Sep 01 22:47:05 2008\nReceived:  
from 144.71.3.213.cust.bluewin.ch ([213.3.71.144] helo=[10.0.0.13])\n 
\tby teti.ch with esmtpa (Exim 4.63)\n\t(envelope-from <SENDER EMAIL>) 
\n\tid 1KaGIj-0004ug-QV\n\tfor LIST EMAIL; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:47:05  
+0200\nMessage-Id: <6F858790-A9AD-4849-8C21-A98E56B8AA7A at example.com> 
\nFrom: Gaspard Bucher <SENDER EMAIL>\nTo: LIST EMAIL\nContent-Type:  
text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed\nContent-Transfer- 
Encoding: 7bit\nMime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework  
v926)\nSubject: test5\nDate: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:52:45 +0200\nX-Mailer:  
Apple Mail (2.926)\n\ncinq\t\n\n"

I cannot even find a log information. Logs are empty:
-rw-rw-r--  1 list     list   308 2008-09-01 23:01 error
-rw-rw-r--  1 list     list     0 2008-09-01 06:27 post
-rw-rw-r--  1 list     list     0 2008-09-02 06:27 qrunner
-rw-rw-r--  1 list     list     0 2008-09-01 06:27 qrunner.1
-rw-rw-r--  1 list     list     0 2008-09-02 06:27 smtp
-rw-rw-r--  1 list     list     0 2008-09-01 06:27 smtp.1
-rw-rw-r--  1 list     list     0 2008-09-02 06:27 smtp-failure
-rw-rw-r--  1 list     list     0 2008-09-01 06:27 smtp-failure.1
-rw-rw-r--  1 list     list    76 2008-09-01 22:27 subscribe

the error log contains the following:

Sep 01 22:25:23 2008 (17281) couldn't load config file /var/lib/ 
mailman/lists/test-news/config.pck
invalid load key, 'm'.
Sep 01 22:25:23 2008 (17281) fixing corrupt config file, using: /var/ 
lib/mailman/lists/test-news/config.pck.last
Sep 01 23:01:19 2008 post(19291): post script, list not found: cosoasdf

related to some things I tried to see what was happening.


Any clue would be greatly welcome, I'm totally lost here.

Gaspard

System:
2.6.18-xenU64
debian etch

mailman:
Package: mailman
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1:2.1.9-7