> On 6/10/18 11:21 AM, Brian Carpenter wrote: > > > > I have a strange issue that has been occurring for the last 2 weeks. One of > > our mailman servers continues to have 4-5 messages stuck in the qfiles/out > > folder. These messages are being removed and then readded to the folder. > The > > same messages over and over and over. It is causing significant I/O usage. I > > have to stop the mailman server and then manually remove the messages. > They > > are coming from one list via different members. I checked the list archives > > and there is only one copy of each message listed in the archive and they > > are not being resent to list members. It's just that these 4/5 messages are > > being removed and then rewritten to the qfiles/out folder over and over. > > Suggestions? > > > My first guess is they are outgoing messages that have encountered some > 'retryable' SMTP error on one or more recipients and are being retried. > > Normally, they would only be retried every 15 minutes, but possibly this > is occurring more often for some reason. > > Are there entries in qfiles/retry? > What is logged in Mailman's smtp-failure log? > What does Mailman's bin/dumpdb show on the .pck (or maybe .bak - need a > -p option for that) files in qfiles/out and qfiles/retry? Look > particularly at the second object from dumpdb - bin/show-qfiles doesn't > show that. > > What does the MTA say about these? > > -- > Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
I think I found the problem. Several of those members had periods at the end of their email addresses. Brian ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org