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-rw-r--r--NEWS4
-rwxr-xr-xcron/gate_news9
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a7ddb27b..f364d41a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
requests have not been migrated properly. This is fixed.
Bug #266106 (sf998384).
+ - Changed cron/gate_news to continue processing the remaining lists on
+ certain errors that can be caused by configuration of a particular list.
+ Bug #265941 (sf775100).
+
2.1.11 (30-Jun-2008)
New Features
diff --git a/cron/gate_news b/cron/gate_news
index a84731f3..a44257cd 100755
--- a/cron/gate_news
+++ b/cron/gate_news
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#! @PYTHON@
#
-# Copyright (C) 1998-2003 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1998-2008 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -206,8 +206,11 @@ def process_lists(glock):
# Open the newsgroup, but let most exceptions percolate up.
try:
conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist)
- except (socket.error, nntplib.NNTPError):
- break
+ except (socket.error, nntplib.NNTPError), e:
+ syslog('fromusenet',
+ "%s: couldn't open newsgroup %s: skipping\n%s",
+ listname, mlist.linked_newsgroup, e)
+ continue
syslog('fromusenet', '%s: [%d..%d]' % (listname, first, last))
try:
try: