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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Michael,

Messages in the spool have the following form :
   <listname>@<listdomain>.<epoch_date>.<pid>

In your case it looks like the <listname>@<listdomain> is missing. This 
is confirmed by the empty X-Sympa-To header field.

You must have a corrupted alias entry with a the queue program's 
parameter missing. Check your mail aliases file...

Michael Biebl wrote:

> I am using Sympa 3.3.3 under Debian Woody (the original woody 
> package). Today I scanned through the /var/spool/sympa/queue directory 
> and wondered why it was so big (approximately 280MB) although there 
> was no message in the queue. So I did a "ls -la" and found many dot 
> files (i.e. .1059658293.2462). It seems that Exim couldn't deliver 
> this message and sent it back to sympa. But why is this message not 
> moved to bad?
> Here is the header of such a message:
>
>     X-Sympa-To:
>    Return-path: <""@teco.edu>
>    Envelope-to: ""@teco.edu
>    Delivery-date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:30:00 +0200
>    Received: from amavis by mail.teco.edu with scanned-ok (Exim 3.35 #1
>    (Debian))
>            id 19iDVI-0000cb-00
>            for <""@teco.edu>; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:30:00 +0200
>    Received: from mail by mail.teco.edu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 
> (Debian))
>            id 19iDVH-0000cO-00
>            for <""@teco.edu>; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:29:59 +0200
>    X-Failed-Recipients: address@concealed
>    From: Mail Delivery System <address@concealed>
>    To: ""@teco.edu
>    Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
>    Message-Id: <address@concealed>
>    Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:29:59 +0200
>    X-Virus-Scanned: by TecO-AMaViS
>
>    This message was created automatically by mail delivery software 
> (Exim).
>
>    A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
>    recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) 
> failed:
>
> Can anybody explain what there ist happening?

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Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites