Hey,
assuming this is your whole config, could you either uncomment the
access_log directive or add "access_log off"? I'm pretty sure you're
hitting the bug introduced in 1.7.0:
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2014-June/005430.html

Best regards,
Piotr Sikora

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