[clue-admin] Re: FW: 5410 Mailman moderator request(s) waiting

[Jeff Cann]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:57 AM, <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:

> I get an error whenever I try to deal with this.
>
> -------------- Forwarded Message: --------------
> Subject: 5410 Mailman moderator request(s) waiting
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:08:30 +0000
> The Mailman at cluedenver.org mailing list has 5410 request(s) waiting
>


Dennis,

The reason this is causing an error is that the list of held messages is too
large to perform this operation from the web interface.

Here's what you do from command line to remove these messages - use the
mailman 'discard' utility:

$ sudo su - root
# cd /var/lib/mailman
# find data -name heldmsg-mailman-\* -print | xargs
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/discard
...
Discarded held msg #7905 for list mailman


This is a slightly different command line than what is documented in the
mailman FAQ as our system has things setup differently than the default
mailman install - the program files are in /usr/lib/mailman and the data
files are in /var/lib/mailman.  Here's the FAQ entry for this issue:

http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.074.htp

I went ahead and ran it on our system tonight and removed the 5K of held
messages.

Also, I will [later tonight] change the settings of each list to not hold
pending moderator requests.  I'm not sure why I left the default to hold
moderator requests.

Jeff

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