Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and fault tolerance

2006-06-23 Thread Brad Knowles
> The outgoing message (containing a recipient list in its metadata) is > placed in Mailman's 'out' queue where it is picked up by > OutgoingRunner. At this point it is deleted from the out queue and > exists only in memory. OutgoingRunner calls the DELIVERY_MODULE > (normally SMTPDirect) to actua

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and fault tolerance

2006-06-23 Thread Antonio Dragone
Thank you all for the answers! Following Brad's answer, I looked into the mailman logs and found… 11045 mails sent! Yeah! Job was resumed (and completed) by Mailman. Sendmail logs are a little different… it looks like about 50 of the messages where lost and with Mark's post I assume they were in "m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and fault tolerance

2006-06-22 Thread John W. Baxter
On 6/22/06 11:11 AM, "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It depends on how the server died and whether Mailman (specifically > OutgoingRunner) was sent a SIGTERM and given a chance to wrapup. > > The outgoing message (containing a recipient list in its metadata) is > placed in Mailman's 'o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and fault tolerance

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: >At 9:25 PM -0500 6/21/06, Antonio Dragone wrote: > >> Has mailman some kind of fault tolerance to resume an incomplete job? > > Sure. Mailman puts all outgoing messages into it's own outgoing >queue, before it delivers those messages to the MTA. So, anything >that h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and fault tolerance

2006-06-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:25 PM -0500 6/21/06, Antonio Dragone wrote: > Today in the morning I started the server again and I found about 400 > e-mails in the sendmail queue. Right, but how many messages had sendmail already delivered by that point? Did you check the logs? > Is there some way to know if

[Mailman-Users] Mailman and fault tolerance

2006-06-21 Thread Antonio Dragone
Hi! I have a mailing list of members subscribed to an e-news letter. Yesterday in the morning I started the letter delivery but in the evening someone shut down the mailman server. Today in the morning I started the server again and I found about 400 e-mails in the sendmail queue. Is there some way