[Mailman-Users] How can I check status of or abort a mailing in progress?
I have been hosting a mailing list of 16,000 names which has been purring along for over a year now with no problems. (I am running Mailman 2.1.5, Postfix-2.2.10, on RHES 4.0) Recently I reconfigured this list to enable personalization so my client could do a better job of processing cancellation requests from subscribers. The processing time for a mailing (from the smtp log) went from a few seconds per mailing to a few minutes, but nothing unreasonable. Heady from this success, I re-reconfigured the list to enable full personalization. My client posted his first message using this configuration Sunday night and it is still being processed (Tuesday night). The smtp log is filling with entries indicating either one or three recipients were processed. [I understand the reason for the singletons but not the triplets.] These entries occur in batches of a hundred or so and then pause for an hour or two. I have no idea how far the system has gotten in processing the entire list. Is there any way to find out? (The message already appears in the archives but there is no entry in the Mailman post log.) My client wants me to cancel the post, but I can't find any indication of how one would go about doing that. Nothing in the documentation, wiki, FAQ, and only one post on the subject on this list (but without an answer to the question). Any help would be appreciated. (Also pointing me toward any general document on the overall design and architecture of Mailman would be appreciated. The only documentation I can find is user or list-admin oriented. Not a clue about how Mailman actually gets its job done.) Thanks in advance, John Hicks -- 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
Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I check status of or abort a mailing in progress?
On 7/2/08, John Hicks wrote: I have no idea how far the system has gotten in processing the entire list. Is there any way to find out? (The message already appears in the archives but there is no entry in the Mailman post log.) Other than what is showing up in the Mailman smtp logs and in the postfix syslog, there's no status tool that I know of. My client wants me to cancel the post, but I can't find any indication of how one would go about doing that. Nothing in the documentation, wiki, FAQ, and only one post on the subject on this list (but without an answer to the question). It's pretty simple, actually -- stop Mailman and postfix, clean out all the affected queue messages and move them aside, then restart Mailman and postfix. How you find out which queue messages are affected will be a bit harder, but with the dumpdb program for dumping Python pickles, and the postcat command to look at postfix messages in the queue, that shouldn't be too excessively difficult. (Also pointing me toward any general document on the overall design and architecture of Mailman would be appreciated. The only documentation I can find is user or list-admin oriented. Not a clue about how Mailman actually gets its job done.) I'm not sure what you're asking for. There's plenty of FAQ entries that are specific to site admins, and there's also documentation specific to site administrators. I don't know how much more actually gets its job done you get than that. -- Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] LinkedIn Profile: http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu -- 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
