On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Mark Sapiro wrote: > There are several possibilities here. > > 3) if a message is shunted because SMTPDirect.py can't write the 'post' > log, it has already been sent, but OutgoingRunner.py doesn't know this > when it catches the exception and shunts the message. So those > messages which were shunted because of ownership/permission issues on > the 'post' log probably were duplicated when you ran unshunt
I think that solves the mystery then. >> What am I missing here? From what I've been able to dig up on the list >> archives the qfiles/shunt directory should only contain messages that never >> made it out to any lists due to some error in config, perms or some bug in >> mailman itself. > > This is not always true, as in case 3) above. Thus, you have to use > judgement in unshunting. Will do. Also set up an snmp monitoring process to watch the shunt queue and let me know when things are piling up so I can investigate. > In the case where the error occurs in delivery under OutgoingRunner, > the message will have been archived, and when unshunted will be > processed only by OutgoingRunner and not by ArchRunner, so no > duplicate archive entry results. But, in this case, it is possible > that some or all receipients received the original delivery and will > receive duplicates when the message is unshunted. Excellent info. I put a question regarding this in the FAQ, so now I'll answer it. Thanks for the insight Mark, very much appreciated. Charles > -- > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > ------------------------------------------------------ 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
