The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Dan Clawson <address@concealed>]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, David Verdin wrote:

> > Hello,
> >
> > I am having a problem with Sympa 5.1.2.  sympa.pl is crashing with the 
> > error message:
> >
> > Mar  4 07:06:29 hostname sympa[3008]: Incorrect listname "+._-sympa"
> >
> > In /opt/sympa/spool/msg I find a message:
> >
> > +.address@concealed 
>
> There are 2 problems :
> 1- Why does sympa.pl crash ?
> 2- Why is this file created with this name ?
>
> In order to fix the first one, we could test the content of this message. It 
> is possible that it contains some weirdly built MIME , causing sympa to 
> crash. Please copy this, and send us its content so that we can test it. You 
> could also upgrade your Mime::tools CPAN library.

Attached is the message.

I checked my version of MIME::Tools.  I am a couple of versions behind.  I'll 
update this.

cpan> i MIME::Tools
Strange distribution name [MIME::Tools]
Module id = MIME::Tools
    CPAN_USERID  DSKOLL (David F. Skoll <address@concealed>)
    CPAN_VERSION 5.420
    CPAN_FILE    D/DS/DSKOLL/MIME-tools-5.420.tar.gz
    MANPAGE      MIME-tools - modules for parsing (and creating!) MIME 
entities
    INST_FILE    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/MIME/Tools.pm
    INST_VERSION 5.417

> For the second one : Files in spool msg are created by sendmail aliases 
> mailer prog (pipe in queue program) or web interface when using "post" via a 
> list menu. We don't know how such a name can be produced. It souldn't be an 
> incorrect listname anyway. Maybe by reading your message we could guess what 
> produced it.

I've looked at the message (attached) more since I sent my original note.  It 
looks like this address is being set as the Return-Path in the rejection 
notice.  I'm not sure why this is happening.


Two other notes:

- I changed the log_level in my sympa.conf from 0 to 3 to see if more logs 
were generated in this situation.  Nope.  (Also the documentation suggests 
levels 0,2,3.  My sympa.conf suggests levels 0,2,3,4.  Do you have better 
guidelines here?)

- We are using a regexp map with postfix v. 2.2.3.  Would it help you to see 
my virtual and aliases files?


Thanks for your help.

Dan


Dan Clawson
Office of Information Technology
University of Utah
(e) address@concealed

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