Ulf Dunkel wrote: > >I have found various error reports in /var/log/mailman/error and fixed >everything to have a usable Mailman again. But there are still many >shunted emails in /qfiles/retry/, /qfiles/shunt/ and /qfiles/virgin/.
The files in qfiles/retry/ and qfiles/virgin/ are not shunted. If they are *.pck files, they should be processed normally by RetryRunner and VirginRunner respectively if those runners are running. If they are *.bak files, they are 'backup' queue entries that were possibly left behind if the runner died while processing a message. If so, they should be reprocessed the next time the runner starts. >When I try > >$ /var/lib/mailman/bin/unshunt >$ -bash: unshunt: command not known Does /var/lib/mailman/bin/unshunt exist and is it executable (mode -rwxr-xr-x)? >What am I doing wrong? When I try > >$ /var/lib/mailman/bin/python unshunt Do you really have a python in /var/lib/mailman/bin or did you perhaps mean $ python /var/lib/mailman/bin/unshunt >it simply returns to the prompt after a while, without having proceeded >the shunted files, as far as I can see. Is my "unshunt" kind of damaged? Unshunt will process *.bak and *.pck files in qfiles/shunt/ first renaming the .bak files to .pck and then attempting to restore the .pck files to their original queue. For any .pck files it can't requeue, it should print a "Cannot unshunt message xxxxx, skipping" message and leave that file as a .bak in the shunt/ queue. You can look at these files with bin/dumpdb -p to see the message and the metadata. Each file should contain two objects, the message and the metadata. The metadata should have a 'whichq' attribute indicating which queue to put it in. Is it possible that the messages are being unshunted and then throwing exceptions in processing and being shunted again? What do mailman's error and smtp-failure (for retry) logs say? -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
