Re: [Mailman-Users] Help! Digest went nuts!

2001-06-05 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "CVR" == Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Who's file I/O routines? Is the MTA mistaking the NUL for an >> EOF? CVR> AFAIKT, it's Python's, and mailman. my archives of the raw CVR> input shows that sendmail was passing it along to mailman, CVR> and mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help! Digest went nuts!

2001-06-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Monday, June 4, 2001, at 10:43 PM, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > Who's file I/O routines? Is the MTA mistaking the NUL for an EOF? AFAIKT, it's Python's, and mailman. my archives of the raw input shows that sendmail was passing it along to mailman, and mailman was doing the truncation. -- Ch

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help! Digest went nuts!

2001-06-04 Thread Steph
thanks again for the suggestions! I'll have to forward them on to the folks who are allowed to get at the Python code. Unfortunately, I don't know which version of Python they're using -- but this sounds like it *might* be the key we need! Cheers, Steph At 01:43 AM 6/5/01 -0400, Barry wrote:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help! Digest went nuts!

2001-06-04 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "CVR" == Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CVR> if the log shows nothing, I've seen this before. turns out a CVR> user had an embedded NUL character (ascii 0), and it caused CVR> the file I/O routines to see a premature EOF. Mailman needs CVR> to protect itself f

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help! Digest went nuts!

2001-06-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Monday, June 4, 2001, at 10:21 PM, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > >> "S" == Steph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > S> Here are some facts: * The digest came out incomplete -- it > S> broke off in the middle of one of the messages. > > Take a look at Mailman's error log file, $prefix/log

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help! Digest went nuts!

2001-06-04 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "S" == Steph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: S> Here are some facts: * The digest came out incomplete -- it S> broke off in the middle of one of the messages. Take a look at Mailman's error log file, $prefix/logs/error to see if you're getting any Python tracebacks. Could be as you

[Mailman-Users] Help! Digest went nuts!

2001-06-04 Thread Steph
Hi folks, Hope you can help us figure out what went wrong -- our webhost seems to have no clue about this, and doesn't seem eager to figure it out. One day this weekend our list digest sent itself out over 200 times. Tech Support tried rebooting the server, but all that did was to take the list