<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:57 AM, <<a href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I get an error whenever I try to deal with this.<br>
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Subject: 5410 Mailman moderator request(s) waiting<br>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:08:30 +0000<br>The <a href="mailto:Mailman@cluedenver.org">Mailman@cluedenver.org</a> mailing list has 5410 request(s) waiting<br></blockquote></div><br><br>Dennis,<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Here's what you do from command line to remove these messages - use the mailman 'discard' utility:<br><br>$ sudo su - root<br># cd /var/lib/mailman<br># find data -name heldmsg-mailman-\* -print | xargs /usr/lib/mailman/bin/discard<br>
...<br>Discarded held msg #7905 for list mailman<br><br><br>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:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.074.htp">http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.074.htp</a><br><br>I went ahead and ran it on our system tonight and removed the 5K of held messages.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>Jeff<br><br>-- <br>Read my blog at <a href="http://www.isuma.org/">http://www.isuma.org/</a>