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[Dan Pritts <address@concealed>]

On May 26, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Remo Del Bello wrote:
> Of interest is the error "Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' 
> bytes" which indicates to me that the MySQL max_allowed_packet variable 
> needs to be increased. I changed this in my.cnf for [mysqld] section. I 
> understand I need to change it for MySQL clients too but don't know where 
> to change it for Sympa.

on the mysql client (sympa server), put this in my.cnf:

        [mysql]
        max_allowed_packet=64M

or whatever

> Secondly, the last line indicates the message was moved to some directory 
> named "bad". Is there some way, once the max_allowed_packet issue is 
> resolved, to take that message file and have Sympa process it again for 
> delivery?

I believe you can just find the file and pipe it into sympa.pl, just as 
normal delivery does.  I'd test it on a test list first.

danno
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