On 05/09/2005 02:37 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:18 AM -0700 2005-05-09, Tyler Strickland wrote: > >> I'm running a fairly large (~125000 user) list that takes about 2 days >> to send to. Say, for example, we notice an error in a message that we >> sent out 2 hours ago, but that still has about 2 days to go to get >> everything sent. Optimization is an issue for another day, but is there >> a way to stop that message from getting sent to any more members? > > > Stopping the queue runners will keep Mailman from sending out > anything more, but you'll also have to stop the queue runners for your > MTA -- it's entirely possible that Mailman was finished dumping outgoing > e-mail on your MTA long ago, and it's your MTA that is taking so long to > send everything.
That's entirely possible - the system is an old sun running sendmail. I'm currently building a new mail server to replace it that should be able to handle the load much better by running postfix on a hyperthreaded Pentium 4. Thanks! Tyler ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
