Mike wrote: >It may also be difficult to properly recover the digest. > > > Hi Mike - problem solved and it had nothing to do with python, Mailman or any of the mail clients. When I went to edit the digest.mbox file I noticed it was 1.4 gigabytes in size (!). And this from a list that was just re-created a week ago and only had 5 messages sent to it. Turns out the list owner set it up so that there was no limit on the size of the files users were allowed to send and one of the users sent a 1.4 gig .sit (Stuffit) file to the list (probably inadvertantly). Our MTA (exim) wouldn't have delivered it anyway, but Mailman and python were going wild trying to accomodate this large attachment (memory exhausted, plus a huge swap file being created each time), I also run a cron job every hour to unshunt things and that certainly added to the chaos.
This also explains why other lists were either failing to deliver, or getting their messages late. Mailman was busy doing other things. It was not apparent from the messages in the shunt dir that this was a large file. Only digest.mbox revealed that. I am going to go through all of our lists now, searching for large digest files. Thanks for all your help. - jim - ------------------------------------------------------ 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
