Digesting problem

Greetings!

I have been running a mailing list with majordomo since 2002 (it actually
started in 1994 but I was only a subscriber and contributor before that).  The
list was actually composed of a moderated list, an un-moderated list and a
digest of the moderated list.  Everything was working fine until I had to move
it to a different server (old server was being retired, and the domain was
retiring with it.)

The old system was on BSD linux, and the new system is on Oracle (Red Hat
derived) linux.  Since the move, the system has not been able to create
digests properly.  There are two main symptoms, the size of the digests (set
at 28k, and varies from 2k to 15-20k) and the ordering of the email messages
(they seem to be put out in a semi-random order).

The size problem can be very irritating, because it will start putting out a
digest with every new message that occurs.  Since I am away from a computer
for several days at a time, and the list gets 10-30 emails a day, there can be
a lot of single email digests of 2-4K in size.

When this problem occurs, I will find numerous emails in the digest storage
area of varying age, and will notice that most of those emails stay around for
several digest creations.  If I trigger digest creation two or three times
("echo mkdigest list passwd | mail majordomo") it will clean out all of the
emails in the storage area and then start "sort-of" working (all emails go
out, but digest size still varies from 5-15k) for a few days.  Unfortunately,
those digests never get mailed out, even though they were created and are
available from the archive.

Has anyone else ever experienced a problem like this, and how did you solve it?

BUZ

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