Earlier today one of my users sent a message out to a list but it never got there. It took a long time to figure out what happened to this message but when we finally found it, it had been shunted. There was an entry in the mailman error log that read "Mar 09 11:26:51 2007 (9048) SHUNTING: 1173457464.059757+0856bb6e7edddefed75767308c85d69536288426" and we had to find this message in the /var/spool/mailman/shunt directory and release it. There were other messages in the error log surrounding this one about an "uncaught runner exception: unknown encoding:" and then it listed the subject of a message that had been posted previously to the list.
I'm completely unfamiliar with this shunting process and its kind of disturbing that mailman would quietly discard a perfectly good message that had been sent by an approved sender and not throw any errors except this cryptic line in the error log. I can't find any good documentation on shunting either. Can someone explain what happened here or point me to some docs that might help? Thanks. Josh ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp