Re: [Mailman-Users] Manipulate mailman in / out queue

2012-10-15 Thread Xueshan Feng
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Xueshan Feng wrote: > > >On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > >> Xueshan Feng wrote: > > > >if I want to move quite a few *.bak aside (use timestamp as an > >indicator of > >how long they've been in that state), Is it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Manipulate mailman in / out queue

2012-10-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
Xueshan Feng wrote: >On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> Xueshan Feng wrote: > >if I want to move quite a few *.bak aside (use timestamp as an >indicator of >how long they've been in that state), Is it necessary to stop the >service, move files, then restart service? >We

Re: [Mailman-Users] Manipulate mailman in / out queue

2012-10-15 Thread Xueshan Feng
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Xueshan Feng wrote: > > >Can you do that (drop in files, or move the files out), while the > >service > >is running, without crashing service or losing data. > > > Probably yes, but don't. > > Either OutgoingRunner has died (check Mailman's q

Re: [Mailman-Users] Manipulate mailman in / out queue

2012-10-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
Xueshan Feng wrote: >Can you do that (drop in files, or move the files out), while the >service >is running, without crashing service or losing data. Probably yes, but don't. Either OutgoingRunner has died (check Mailman's qrunner log) or your out queue is backlogged. If there is a bad messa

[Mailman-Users] Manipulate mailman in / out queue

2012-10-15 Thread Xueshan Feng
Is it safe to move files in and out of the mailman's qfile/in, qfile/out directory while the qrunners are running? We are having an empty 'in' queue, but huge out queue. There might be bad messages stuck somewhere. I saw some posts in past that you can move files to another place, move them back i