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[Ian Miller <address@concealed>]

I'm not sure what was going on here. Domain and 'cookie' hadn't changed since 
installation, but something was failing. The workaround you suggested didn't 
work for me - everytime I copied a list (and possibly other actions) the 
notifications would fail the checksum test.

I needed a fast fix, so I have gone into sympa.pl and removed the Checksum 
checking code in my instance. This seems to have fixed my problem.

Ian

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From: IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>
Sent: 12 May 2021 02:22
To: Ian Miller <address@concealed>
Cc: address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Incorrect checksum

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On Tue, 11 May 2021 08:47:12 +0000
Ian Miller <address@concealed> wrote:

> The message in question seems to have been generated by Sympa as 
> notification of a new list being requested. Is this the same as sending  
> from the web interface?
>
> It is likely that other parameters have been changed in sympa.conf (eg 
> listmaster addresses, wwsympa_url, db details) . Are you saying that the 
> checksum will always fail if the file is not original? Is there a 
> workaround for this?

If "domain" and/or "cookie" parameter(s) have been changed, checksum will 
fail.

Workaround is, as I wrote in the previous post, removing checksum line 
generated with the older parameter(s).  The cecksums generated with the new 
parameters won't fail anymore.

Or, the best solution is updating Sympa to recent versions which no longer 
will use checksums.

Regards,
-- Soji


> Ian
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>
> Sent: 11 May 2021 02:49
> To: Ian Miller <address@concealed>
> Cc: address@concealed
> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Incorrect checksum
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> Hi Ian,
>
> On Fri, 7 May 2021 09:51:55 +0000
> Ian Miller <address@concealed> wrote:
>
> > We're using Sympa 6.1.24 from Ubuntu packages, with exim as our MTA.
> >
> > An end user has requested a new list, which seems to have worked OK. 
> > However, instead of the notifications going to the listmasters, we got a 
> > few of these instead (real domain changed):
> >
> >
> > "User SYMPA <address@concealed> has encountered an internal 
> > server error (message diffusion - MSG_ID: 
> > <address@concealed>):
> >
> >
> >
> > Message ignored because incorrect checksum
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > See the logs for more details."
>
> I guess the user posted the message in question using web interface (via 
> "Post" menu).
>
> The earlier version of Sympa (6.1.x or earlier) added a "checksum"
> to the messages posted with web interface, and checked it to confirm that 
> the message had been posted properly.  Changing some parameters including 
> "domain" may invalidate this checksum.
>
>
> > The logs don't seem to have much more detail, but I can find the 'bad' 
> > messages in the var spool and they look fine, except that after the 
> > initial notification messages there are also messages which look like 
> > this (domain changed again):
> >
> >
> > ------------=address@concealed
> > Content-Disposition: inline
> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="US-ASCII"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Content-length: 145
> >
> >
> > Impossible to distribute your message for list '' because of an
> > internal server error.
> >
> > For further information, please contact -request@
> >
> >
> >
> > What could be causing these errors? Where should I be looking next?
>
> At first, confirm that you haven't changed any parameters except "domain" 
> parameter: Compare "sympa.conf" file before and after changing.
>
> If you can be sure, you can deliver the message doing as below:
>
>   1. Stop the Sympa services.
>
>   2. Edit the message in question left in the "bad" directory to
>      remove a line beginning with "X-Sympa-Checksum:".
>
>   3. Copy the message above into the parent of "bad" directory (Maybe
>      it is "msg" directory).
>
>   4. Start the Sympa services.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Regards,
> -- Soji
>
>
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