Re: Mail processing problem on debbugs?

[Michael Albinus]

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Glenn,

> That was a new one. How it is supposed to work:
>
> All incoming mails are passed to the debbugs-submit mailman list for
> moderation (if needed), then (if accepted) sent on to the real
> debbugs-submit address.
>
> The mails were still going to mailman, being moderated, and appearing in
> the mailman archive. But they were not getting to debbugs.
>
> I looked at the mailman admin interface and happened to see that the
> sole member of the debbugs-submit list, submit@debbugs, was disabled due
> to bounces. I re-enabled it, and now things seem to be working again.

Thanks! Too bad, that us trying to do admin work don't know the data
flow good enough for analysis ...

> Questions:

> 1) why did this happen? Some transient problem, or...?
>
> 2) should bounce processing be disabled in the mailman interface?

No idea, for both questions.

> 3) what to do about the mails that are in the mailman archive, but were
> not sent on to debbugs. I guesstimate it is about 100 mails.
> With some effort, they could be manually injected into debbugs.

I believe we should do. How to sync? I could do it by tomorrow morning
(Berlin time), but I would need some few words about what to do.

Best regards, Michael.