The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Ian Miller <address@concealed>]

I’ve discovered a similar scenario, where a message sent to a ‘confidential’ list by a non-subscriber was silently dropped. I’ve found that the message was copied to the ‘bad’ folder, but no other notifications were raised to sender, list owner or listmaster.

 

Do other people have a mechanism for monitoring this folder and following stuff up?

 

 

Ian Miller

 

--

Ian Miller

IT Systems and Services Coordinator, National STEM Learning Centre and Network

STEM Learning Ltd

 

E-mail: address@concealed

 

 

Tel: 01904 328376

Mobile: 07792772187

Twitter: @STEMLearning_im

Web: www.stem.org.uk

 

The National STEM Learning Network – working together to achieve a world-leading STEM education for all young people across the UK

 

From: address@concealed [mailto:address@concealed] On Behalf Of Lorenz, Sabine (SCC)
Sent: 23 May 2017 10:57
To: address@concealed
Subject: [sympa-users] quiet deletion of encrypted mails that can't be decrypted by Sympa

 

Hi all,

 

we have a sympa installation (sympa 6.1.23 as debian package) with two  virtual robots and we observed the following behaviour of Sympa:

 

If Sympa receives an encrypted message and isn’t able to decrypt the message this message is moved to /var/spool/sympa/msg/bad/.

During this process no information mail is sent to the sender of the email and this email seems to be deleted after one week.

 

The belonging snippet of the Sympa-Log is the following:

 

May 22 16:29:00 lists1 sympa(command)[2123]: err tools::smime_decrypt() Unable to decrypt message : missing certificate file

May 22 16:29:00 lists1 sympa(command)[2123]: err main::DoFile() Unable to create Message object /address@concealed

May 22 16:29:00 lists1 sympa(command)[2123]: notice Moving bad file address@concealed to bad/

 

In our opinion it is not correct that the email is accepted by all  of the involved smtp server (including sympa) and then the email disappeares and is deleted after one week without any information to the sender of the email.

 

Is there at least a possibility to send a message to the sender if an encrypted email can’t be handled by Sympa?

How do you deal with this behaviour?

 

Thank you very much for any hints.

Best regards,

Sabine Lorenz

----------

Sabine Lorenz
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Steinbuch Centre for Computing

Hermann von Helmholtz Platz 1
76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Telefon: +49 721 608-28633

E-Mail: address@concealed
www.kit.edu/scc

KIT - Universität des Landes Baden-Württemberg und
nationales Großforschungszentrum in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

Das KIT ist seit 2010 als familiengerechte Hochschule zertifiziert.

 

---

STEM Learning Limited registered in England and Wales, Company Number 05081097.
Registered Office: National STEM Learning Centre, University of York, Heslington, York, North Yorkshire, YO10 5DD

This email is intended only for the named recipient, may be confidential and may also be privileged. Please notify us immediately if you are not the intended recipient. You should not copy it, forward it or use it for any purpose or disclose the contents to any person. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us as soon as possible on +44 (0)1904328300 and destroy your copy.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, this e-mail is not intended to constitute a business letter, order form or other offer or invitation to you, nor does this e-mail form the basis of any contract. Contracts may not be concluded by e-mail and any contract or agreement attached is subject to contract and shall not and is not intended to create a legally binding relationship.

STEM Learning Limited has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email and does not accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachments. This email has been scanned by the Websense Email Security System. For more information please visit: http://www.websense.com/content/websense-email-security-products.aspx