[Mailman-Users] Outbox Flooded

2003-10-13 Thread Hostmaster
Red Hat 9.0 with Mailman using Postfix as the MTA, we've managed to flood the outbox 
(whatever that is) with thousands of accidental messages that resulted from a series 
of poor choices in the setup.  

A nasty situation is upon us, sending out countless unintened (and unwanted) messages 
in the name of Mailman.

We are despirately trying to discover the origin, queue, or otherwise staging file of 
the messages so we can pre-empt their transfer.

The majority of these are messages generated from automated notifications within 
Mailman.

I have attempted to use a previously recommended prompt command (postsuper -d ALL but 
this seems to only empty the Postfix queue.  The messasges keep coming!  It appears 
they are being genereated and then delivered to Postfix.

Does anyone have an idea where we can terminate the messages before they get to 
Postfix and are sent?


Nathan Morgan
972-231-9300
www.jbagroup.net
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbox Flooded

2003-10-13 Thread Jon Carnes
Well if the messages are coming from mailman, then you should stop
Mailmanctl, examine the messages, and then correct the problem.
   service mailman stop

The messages will have the listname that generated them.

Note, that messages could also be generated by cron jobs, so you might
also need to stop cron, or simply comment out all the cron scripts.
  crontab -u mailman -e

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 09:51, Hostmaster wrote:
 Red Hat 9.0 with Mailman using Postfix as the MTA, we've managed to flood the 
 outbox (whatever that is) with thousands of accidental messages that resulted from 
 a series of poor choices in the setup.  
 
 A nasty situation is upon us, sending out countless unintened (and unwanted) 
 messages in the name of Mailman.
 
 We are despirately trying to discover the origin, queue, or otherwise staging file 
 of the messages so we can pre-empt their transfer.
 
 The majority of these are messages generated from automated notifications within 
 Mailman.
 
 I have attempted to use a previously recommended prompt command (postsuper -d ALL 
 but this seems to only empty the Postfix queue.  The messasges keep coming!  It 
 appears they are being genereated and then delivered to Postfix.
 
 Does anyone have an idea where we can terminate the messages before they get to 
 Postfix and are sent?
 
 
 Nathan Morgan
 972-231-9300
 www.jbagroup.net
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