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[Nick Holden <address@concealed>]

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 12:00 +0200, François Périchon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I upgraded from 6.0 to version 6.1 beta4 but did not use the sympa
> installation tool. I used a modified gentoo live ebuild to install the
> new version directly from svn (I got it from Marcin Deranek's overlay
> here: http://slonko.net/portage/)
> 
> I get this error when moderating by mail (moderation by the web
> application works correctly)
> 
> Jul 20 11:19:48 listes sympa[17966]: err Message::new() Cannot open
> message file /var/spool/sympa/moderation/test-listes_13c3e8f2.distribute
> : Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
> Jul 20 11:19:48 listes sympa[17966]: err Commands::distribute()
> Commands::distribute(): Unable to create Message object
> /var/spool/sympa/moderation/test-listes_13c3e8f2.distribute
> 
> ls -al /var/spool/sympa/moderation
> drwxr-x---  4 sympa sympa 4096 Jul 20 11:29 .
> drwxr-xr-x 17 sympa sympa 4096 Jul 20 11:06 ..
> drwxr-x---  2 sympa sympa 4096 Jul 20 11:19
> .address@concealed
> -rw-r-----  1 sympa sympa 2053 Jul 20 11:19
> address@concealed
> 
> If I recall correctly, sympa.pl create the .distribute file to let know
> the mailer it should distribute the mail.
> Any idea on what goes wrong?
> 
> Regards,

I've got a similar situation, in that messages for lists which require
moderation are only sent out if the moderation is done using the web
interface. Email authorisation simply doesn't work.

What I've also noticed is that when messages are moderated and rejected
on the web interface, while the file within /home/sympa/spool/moderation
is deleted, the corresponding directory is not.

For instance, ls -al gives:
drwxr-x---   2 sympa sympa   4096 2010-07-09
10:45 .address@concealed
-rw-r-----   1 sympa sympa  12904 2010-07-09 10:45
address@concealed
drwxr-x---   2 sympa sympa   4096 2010-06-30
10:20 .address@concealed
-rw-r-----   1 sympa sympa  14356 2010-06-30 10:20
address@concealed

Then after rejecting the messages, ls -al gives:
drwxr-x---   2 sympa sympa   4096 2010-07-09
10:45 .address@concealed
drwxr-x---   2 sympa sympa   4096 2010-06-30
10:20 .address@concealed

Within each directory is a file called msg00000.html with the MHonArc
text of the message.

So, permissions issue? Or a bug?

Thanks for any pointers.

Nick