Re: [Tools-team] Problem with I-D Announcements / Recent Datatracker Update

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Glen,

I'll start looking at this at once.

Best,

	Henrik

On 2010-11-09 09:20 Glen Barney said the following:
> Tools Team -
> 
> Please forgive the crossposting, but this is urgent.
>
> We are getting reports that I-D-Announcements are not going out
> correctly to the list.
> 
> One complainant indicated that the MIME headers were going out
> malformed.  Other evidence suggests that some digest readers are getting
> the digests, but individual list subscribers are getting no mail, or
> blank mail, or invalid mail.
> 
> The old ID Submission Tool uses "NextPart" as a MIME boundary, which is
> obviously very bad... but it has been doing that for the past 3+ years
> with no problem.
> 
> Mailman has also been correctly handling those things for several years,
> also with no problem.
> 
> The only thing which has changed in the processing chain recently is
> that the Django Datatracker is now handling the processing of "Send
> Scheduled Announcements" via this cron job:
> 
> */15 * * * *    /a/www/ietf-datatracker/web/ietf/bin/send-scheduled-mail all
> 
> We implemented that change during the upload blackout before the IETF
> meeting; all announcements since uploading reopened yesterday appear to
> be problematic.
> 
> This is the reason I'm contacting these lists.  If someone could have a
> look at this quickly, and determine what needs to be fixed, that would
> be very helpful.
> 
> Thank you,
> Glen
> 
>