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[Warren Anderson <address@concealed>]

Just in case anyone else runs into this - the problem was the
aliases for sympa and sympa-request were overwritten. I’m surprised
that the only functionality loss we noticed was the ability to 
distribute held messages.

Cheers,
Warren

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On Feb 15, 2017, at 14:28 , Warren Anderson <address@concealed> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We recently upgraded our sympa installation as part of an upgrade
> of our underlying OS from Debian 7 to Debian 8. Since the upgrade,
> we are encountering a problem with distribution of moderated messages.
> When a moderator uses email with a distribute authorization in the 
> subject line, the message continues to sit in the moderation queue 
> unchanged. If the moderator logs into wwsympa and tries to distribute
> the message, the message disappears from the web interface. In 
> /var/spool/sympa/moderate, the message is moved to a file with the same
> name but the string “.distribute” appended to it. But the message is
> never distributed and never leaves the moderate spool.
> 
> I’m at a loss as to where to even start trying to debug this issue. 
> Ownership and permissions on the /var/spool/sympa/moderation/* all 
> look reasonable (owner sympa.sympa, permission rw-r——). There are no
> error messages in any of the sympa logs.
> 
> Has anyone run into this before, or have a suggestion on how to start
> unravelling this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Warren
> 
> +================[ WARREN G. ANDERSON ]====================+
> | PO Box 413, Dept. of Physics, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA   |
> |   CANADA: (403) 617 6720          USA: (414) 212 5446    |
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