Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-09 Thread Thomas Hochstein
David A Boothe schrieb: > I read that and it made about as much sense to me as a medical text > book on brain surgury written is greek. All I want to know is what > the two letters indicate! It has got nothing to do with Mailman. Go and ask at the right place. > I have no clue Obviously. But

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-09 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 8, 2004, at 10:54 PM, Thomas Hochstein wrote: It has got nothing to do with Mailman. Go and ask at the right place. I have no clue Obviously. But please stop bothering us with that. c'mon, folks. There's a polite way to help people, and then there's -- this. Stuff like this doesn't give

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-09 Thread Brad Knowles
At 3:31 PM -0800 2004/02/08, David A Boothe wrote: You know I really HATE that kind of answer. In all the time that one takes to write what he did he could have easily said what each character stood for. Yet all he did was tell me that I could go search through miles of documentation and try

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread Thomas Hochstein
David A Boothe: > Ok but what are the YN, etc in front of each address? Read your Exim documentation: | Following the options there is a list of those addresses to which the | message is not to be delivered. This set of addresse

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread Bob Franklin
On Mon, 8 Feb 2004, Jon Carnes wrote: > Maybe I'll delete this email before I send it - Maybe not. ... To end this [hopefully!] I sent David a [fairly long] reply with more information in, along with an explanation of the Y/N lines (in that 'they're an optimisation and don't have anything to do

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread Jon Carnes
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 18:31, David A Boothe wrote: > You know I really HATE that kind of answer. Then don't use Open Source. > In all the time that one takes to write what he did he could have easily said what > each character stood for. Yet all he did was tell me that I could go search throu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David A Boothe wrote: > I read that and it made about as much sense to me as a medical text > book on brain surgury written is greek. All I want to know is what > the two letters indicate! I have no clue what they mean by parent > and child rewiter s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread David A Boothe
I read that and it made about as much sense to me as a medical text book on brain surgury written is greek. All I want to know is what the two letters indicate! I have no clue what they mean by parent and child rewiter spool tree branch things. I just want to find out in simple terms what is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread David A Boothe
You know I really HATE that kind of answer. In all the time that one takes to write what he did he could have easily said what each character stood for. Yet all he did was tell me that I could go search through miles of documentation and try to find it. Sorry if I sound like I am pissing into

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread Bob Franklin
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, David A Boothe wrote: > Ok but what are the YN, etc in front of each address? http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/spec_49.html#CHAP49 ... in the Exim documentation -> Specification -> Chapter 49: Format of spool files, it explains all. It's a list of people to whom t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread David A Boothe
Ok but what are the YN, etc in front of each address? - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread Thomas Hochstein
David A Boothe schrieb: > Why do these emails sit in my mail queue for days? Probably there is at least *one* recipient for each of these mails the mail can not immediately be delivered to. Your MTA (Exim, I presume?) will try to deliver the mail to those recipients as long as the retry limit you

[Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread David A Boothe
I have a client who has a miling list with about 6,000 subscribers. When he sends out mail, about a dozen emails show up in the mail queue. It appears that the system is breaking the send of the mail to the list into that many individual emails with several hundred address in each. These