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[John Dalbec <address@concealed>]

/var/log/sympa.log has:

Mar  6 08:40:07 cuelists sympa[19933]: notice main::DoFile() Processing 
/var/spool/sympa/msg/sympa.1331041203.3371 ; sender: John Dalbec 
<address@concealed>  ; message-id: <address@concealed>
Mar  6 08:40:07 cuelists sympa[19933]: notice Commands::parse() Parsing:
Mar  6 08:40:07 cuelists sympa[19933]: notice Commands::parse() Parsing: 
QUIET DISTRIBUTE ysu049-students-digest-list
Mar  6 08:40:07 cuelists sympa[19933]: err List::new() Incorrect 
listname ""
Mar  6 08:40:07 cuelists sympa[19933]: info Commands::distribute() 
DISTRIBUTE   from address@concealed refused, unknown list for robot 
cuelists.ysu.edu
Mar  6 08:40:07 cuelists sympa[19933]: notice Commands::parse() Parsing: 
ca69d76f0f2c9b878a314928fb85a3ee
Mar  6 08:40:07 cuelists sympa[19933]: notice main::DoCommand() Unknown 
command found :ca69d76f0f2c9b878a314928fb85a3ee

Why doesn't it parse QUIET DISTRIBUTE correctly?  Does the message have 
to come from sympa-request?
Thanks,
John

On 3/6/2012 9:07 AM, John Dalbec wrote:
> That was apparently part of the moderation process. The messages did not
> appear in the archive. The list aliases are set up; however, I had
> removed the default "sympa" alias so the QUIET DISTRIBUTE commands were
> not processed? I recreated that alias according to your instructions,
> but if I try resending the message I get:
> List '' does not exist.
> I tried sending the message to the -request alias but that just
> forwarded it to the list owner. How can I get the messages moderated?
> Thanks,
> John
>
> On 3/5/2012 1:26 PM, Russ Kepler wrote:
> > On Monday, March 05, 2012 01:15:48 PM John Dalbec wrote:
> > > I already did that. The message files were renamed to have a
> > > ".distribute" suffix and archive directories were created, all in the
> > > moderation directory. But the messages were never sent.
> >
> > Did you do that manually or was that part of the moderation process?
> >
> > > Mar 1 14:15:47 cuelists wwsympa[2909]: info [robot cuelists.ysu.edu]
> > > [session 5110545556930] [client 150.134.8.36] [user address@concealed]
> > > [list ysu049-students-digest-list] main::do_distribute()
> > > do_distribute(ca69d76f0f2c9b878a314928fb85a3ee)
> > > Mar 1 14:15:47 cuelists wwsympa[2909]: info [robot cuelists.ysu.edu]
> > > [session 5110545556930] [client 150.134.8.36] [user address@concealed]
> > > [list ysu049-students-digest-list] main::do_modindex() do_modindex
> > > Mar 1 14:15:47 cuelists wwsympa[2909]: err [robot cuelists.ysu.edu]
> > > [session 5110545556930] [client 150.134.8.36] [user address@concealed]
> > > [list ysu049-students-digest-list] main::do_modindex() do_modindex: no
> > > message and no document
> > > Mar 1 14:15:52 cuelists sympa[3680]: notice main::DoFile() Processing
> > > /address@concealed ; sender:
> > > address@concealed ; message-id:
> > > <address@concealed>
> > > Mar 1 14:15:52 cuelists sympa[3680]: info main::DoSendMessage()
> > > Processing web message for address@concealed
> > > Mar 1 14:15:52 cuelists sympa[3680]: info main::DoSendMessage() Message
> > > for address@concealed sent
> >
> > If I understand you correctly you have a list that has only digest
> > subscribers
> > that is also completely moderated. If you have approved messages you
> > might
> > check to see if they appear in the archive for the list, if not
> > they've not
> > been distributed. Try sibscribing yourself as a regular (non-digest)
> > recipient of the list and see if that helps - you should see each
> > message as
> > it's approved.
> >
> > > After moderation a message was sent to address@concealed containing
> > > QUIET DISTRIBUTE commands. However, I had redirected the "sympa" alias
> > > to root. Where should "sympa" go?
> >
> > The email alias for sympa should be something like:
> >
> > sympa: "|/usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue sympa"
> >
> > Lists need to be aliased:
> >
> > test-list: "| /usr/lib/sympa/lib/sympa/queue
> > address@concealed"
> >
> > On my system those are among others in /etc/aliases. After changing
> > aliases
> > you might need to execute the "newaliases" command.
> >
> > (Please excuse my typing, my system seems to want to reset my keyboard
> > randomly and characters get dropped.)
> >
> > -- Russ