Re: [Mailman-Users] bounce-events-xxxx.pck filling up quickly my disk

[gherzig]

> Gerardo Herzig wrote:
>
>>Hi all. As my server is getting bocked in hotmail and yahoo, the pickled
>>file bounce-events grows mega-fast and quickly fills-up the partition.
>>Can Mailman be configured to "stop writing after some size", or will i
>>have to doit with some sort of Linux quota system?
>
>
> There should never be more than 2 bounce-events-.pck files, one
> where  is the PID of BounceRunner and another where  is the
> PID of OutgoingRunner. Any other such files are orphans and can be
> removed.
>
> The BounceRunner file queues received DSNs. The OutgoingRunner file
> queues outgoing SMTP rejects.
>
> Further, if everything is working as it should be the queued bounces
> should be processed and the file removed at intervals determined by
> the Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py setting REGISTER_BOUNCES_EVERY which
> defaults to 15 minutes.
>
> So what specifically is going wrong in your case?
>
My server is getting spam-blocked in hotmail, yahoo and others, and some
list have about 40,000 hotmail+yahoo address. So the bounce-events-xxx.pck
(i guess im talking about the BounceRunner one) grows almost automaticaly
because of all the yahoo and hotmail emails getting back to my server, to
the 5 GB limit of /usr/local partition.

Thanks Mark!
Gerardo

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Re: [Mailman-Users] bounce-events-xxxx.pck filling up quickly my disk

[Mark Sapiro]

Gerardo Herzig wrote:

>My server is getting spam-blocked in hotmail, yahoo and others, and some
>list have about 40,000 hotmail+yahoo address. So the bounce-events-xxx.pck
>(i guess im talking about the BounceRunner one) grows almost automaticaly
>because of all the yahoo and hotmail emails getting back to my server, to
>the 5 GB limit of /usr/local partition.


If you are saying that it grows to 5 GB within 15 minutes, then shorten
the time between processing to say 5 minutes by putting

REGISTER_BOUNCES_EVERY = minutes(5)

in mm_cfg.py and restarting mailman. If you are saying that
bounce-events-.pck is not being processed and cleared every 15
minutes, then there is some other problem. Look in Mailman's error and
bounce logs for clues.

On the other hand, it might be more productive to find out why you are
blocked and try to get the blocks removed, or are you blocked for good
reason?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] bounce-events-xxxx.pck filling up quickly my disk

[Mark Sapiro]

Gerardo Herzig wrote:

>Hi all. As my server is getting bocked in hotmail and yahoo, the pickled
>file bounce-events grows mega-fast and quickly fills-up the partition.
>Can Mailman be configured to "stop writing after some size", or will i
>have to doit with some sort of Linux quota system?


There should never be more than 2 bounce-events-.pck files, one
where  is the PID of BounceRunner and another where  is the
PID of OutgoingRunner. Any other such files are orphans and can be
removed.

The BounceRunner file queues received DSNs. The OutgoingRunner file
queues outgoing SMTP rejects.

Further, if everything is working as it should be the queued bounces
should be processed and the file removed at intervals determined by
the Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py setting REGISTER_BOUNCES_EVERY which
defaults to 15 minutes.

So what specifically is going wrong in your case?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] bounce-events-xxxx.pck filling up quickly my disk

[Brad Knowles]

on 2/10/09 1:16 PM, Gerardo Herzig said:


Hi all. As my server is getting bocked in hotmail and yahoo, the pickled
file bounce-events grows mega-fast and quickly fills-up the partition.
Can Mailman be configured to "stop writing after some size", or will i
have to doit with some sort of Linux quota system?


I'm not aware of any way to do this within Mailman, at least not without 
changing the source code.  But I wouldn't recommend doing a Linux quota 
system either -- that would probably just cause Mailman to lock up 
completely.


You might want to consider a separate monitoring script that runs 
continuously and cleans out any cruft, or maybe slice your queue runners 
for that part of the system so that you can handle the load better.


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[Mailman-Users] bounce-events-xxxx.pck filling up quickly my disk

[Gerardo Herzig]

Hi all. As my server is getting bocked in hotmail and yahoo, the pickled
file bounce-events grows mega-fast and quickly fills-up the partition.
Can Mailman be configured to "stop writing after some size", or will i
have to doit with some sort of Linux quota system?

Thanks!
Gerardo
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