[PPL-devel] Problems with the ppl-devel mailing list

[Enea Zaffanella]

Roberto Bagnara wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> three days ago, mellon85 at gmail.com sent a message to the ppl-devel
> mailing list.  I (think I have) approved it and added the sender
> to the accept filter, but the message did not show up, neither on the
> list, nor in the archives.  Here is the only trace I could find in
> the mailman log files:
> 
> Dec 04 14:15:06 2007 (2680) PPL-devel post from mellon85 at gmail.com held,
>    message-id=<08B26E7C-5D84-480D-A387-4B342B2DA0FB at gmail.com>:
>    Post by non-member to a members-only list
> 
> Yesterday I wrote to mellon85 at gmail.com apologizing (perhaps I pushed
> the wrong button the other day) and asking him to send the message
> again.  He did that, and this morning the message was still blocked
> because it was too big, i.e.:
> 
> Dec 06 23:00:43 2007 (2680) PPL-devel post from mellon85 at gmail.com held,
>    message-id=<F61AC58F-071C-4B1D-8829-E2DD0D7AD3C8 at gmail.com>:
>    Message body is too big: 158306 bytes with a limit of 150 KB
> 
> I went to the administration page and: I clicked on "accept";
> I closed my eyes, opened them again and verified that I did
> click on "accept";  I got up, walked around the office and
> checked that, yes, I did click in "accept".  Then I clicked
> on "submit".
> 
> Since the message is not showing up and I cannot find any
> traces of it on the system, I guess something went wrong
> again.  Enea, can you please check that our installation
> of mailman is in good shape?

Just an update on what I have found (problem unsolved yet).

The log files (vette) say that you pressed the right button both times, 
but immediately after that the message was discarded anyway by mailman.

These are the log entries relative to the message sent on Dec 04 (see 
the value of message-id):

Dec 05 11:19:12 2007 (16530) held message approved, message-id: 
<08B26E7C-5D84-480D-A387-4B342B2DA0FB at gmail.com>
Dec 05 11:19:12 2007 (2680) Message discarded, msgid: 
<08B26E7C-5D84-480D-A387-4B342B2DA0FB at gmail.com>

These are the log entries for the message sent on Dec 06:

Dec 07 08:18:28 2007 (2918) held message approved, message-id: 
<F61AC58F-071C-4B1D-8829-E2DD0D7AD3C8 at gmail.com>
Dec 07 08:18:29 2007 (2680) Message discarded, msgid: 
<F61AC58F-071C-4B1D-8829-E2DD0D7AD3C8 at gmail.com>

I am trying to better understand what is going on.

Ciao,
Enea.

> mellon85, I apologize again:
> can you please send it again to ppl-devel (so as to help
> us fixing the mailing list problems), CC to me (so that
> we can help you with your problems with the PPL)?
> 
> Thanks to everyone,
> 
>      Roberto
>