The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Liam Kirsher <address@concealed>]

Hi --

I am *still* having the problem that certain spam messages cause Sympa
to crash.

In /home/sympa/spool/tmp I see messages like this:
Unrecognised line: address@concealed>  at /home/sympa/bin/Message.pm
line 89

When I find the message with that email address in
/home/sympa/spool/msg, it invariably contains bad characters in the From
field:
From: ������ <address@concealed>

In order to get Sympa to run, I have to remove the bad file(s) from the
msg directory. Then I can restart it manually and it processes the
remaining messages.
In the meantime, however, ALL messages for ALL lists are stuck! 

I tried to replicate the problem with a simple Perl program, but was
unable to.  It seems to work fine if I try to parse the message
directly, which is puzzling.
http://www.numenet.com/sympa-err/spool/msg
Contains some example bad messages and the test program.

So, what could be different between the test program and running Sympa?

Liam

P.S. I had tried rejecting the spam using a scenario, but apparently
Sympa is going to need to parse the message first anyway, to check for
the X-Spam-Flag header, so that isn't going to work.

-- 
Liam Kirsher
PGP: http://liam.numenet.com/pgp/