[Other developers - please take a look at these refinements to the

deliver script.  Deliver is all important, and i don't want to screw
it up.  I've tested it a bit, but would like your scrutiny before i
put something like it in production!]

I implemented a finite loop around all os.fork()s in the script, to
retry every 15 seconds, up to five times, when error.EAGAIN (resource
temporarily unavailable) is hit.

In the process i've encapsulated the script code in functions,
including a function "forker()" (not mama_forker() - i showed some
restraint:), which takes care of the EAGAIN looping.

Here's a cron report on the error the last time mailpasswds was run:

Your "cron" job on parrot
/usr/local/bin/python /home/mailman/mailman/cron/mailpasswds

produced the following output:

Here's a sample of the traceback that

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/home/mailman/mailman/cron/mailpasswds", line 117, in ?
    main()
  File "/home/mailman/mailman/cron/mailpasswds", line 114, in main
    MailAllPasswords(list, users)
  File "/home/mailman/mailman/cron/mailpasswds", line 81, in MailAllPasswords
    list.SendTextToUser(subject = subj,
  File "/home/mailman/mailman/modules/mm_deliver.py", line 105, in SendTextToUser
    mm_utils.SendTextToUser(subject, text, recipient, sender,
  File "/home/mailman/mailman/modules/mm_utils.py", line 75, in SendTextToUser
    DeliverToUser(msg, recipient, add_headers=add_headers)
  File "/home/mailman/mailman/modules/mm_utils.py", line 89, in DeliverToUser
    if os.fork():
os.error: (11, 'Resource temporarily unavailable')

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