The first thing you do is stop your mail server: /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
Next stop Mailman from processing the queues: /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl stop Now find the message. Is it in the mailservers outbound queue? /var/spool/mqueue/.. There are host of commands (depending on your MTA) to tell you if a message is in your outbound queue. For sendmail the following works: sendmail -bp You can also look at the logs for both Mailman and the MTA to see where the message is currently in the system. The mailman queues are in: /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/.. If you have stopped the Mailmanctl daemon from running then you can delete the msg.db and msg.pck files for a message without any harm. ====== Unless you move at super-sonic speeds you are not going to intercept the message before Mailman has processed it (unless we're talking about a really big list or a truly ancient mail server), so more than likely you will be dealing with the MTA on the box. Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 00:59, NOW Website Coordinator wrote: > I was trying to stop an outgoing message and wasn't quite sure where to do > it. I deleted two files in the qfiles/commands directory which seemed to > be relevant, but it was too late, the message was on its way out. > > I've accepted that fact, now my questions are: > > 1) What problems could I have caused by deleting something in the > qfiles/commands directory? > 2) How *do* you stop an outgoing mailman message? > > Thanks. > > > Sarah Stapleton-Gray > -------------------------------------------- > Web Site Coordinator > National Organization for Women > http://www.now.org > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org