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

2012-10-19 Thread Xueshan Feng
queue files. It helps a lot if one understands how things work. No more trial and error next time if I have to handle backlogs! Thank you! Xueshan Xueshan On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Xueshan Feng wrote: > > > >On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:35 PM

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

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. > > Eit

[Mailman-Users] Manipulate mailman in / out queue

2012-10-15 Thread Xueshan Feng
move them back in batches and try to identify which is bad. Can you do that (drop in files, or move the files out), while the service is running, without crashing service or lost data? Thanks! Xueshan -- Xueshan Feng Infrastructure Delivery Group, IT Services Stan

[Mailman-Users] sendgiest cron job failure

2007-06-13 Thread Xueshan Feng
We have 18K mailing lists. The "senddigest" cron job runs at noon daily. It came to our attention that many lists don't get digests. I put some debugging code in "senddigest", and I found out that there were two lists's digests had TypeError while being processed and 'senddigest" job just bailed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages got stuck in "in" queue due to one"bad"message

2007-02-20 Thread Xueshan Feng
Quoting Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Xueshan Feng wrote: > > >Quoting Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>> All four of them? > > > >Only 3: > > > >mailman:/var/lib/mailman/qfiles# ps -ef | grep Inco > >lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages got stuck in "in" queue due to one"bad"message

2007-02-20 Thread Xueshan Feng
Quoting Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Xueshan Feng wrote: > > >On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 15:37 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> Xueshan Feng wrote: > >> > >> Actually, If I understand the situation correctly, IncomingRunner will > >> not b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages got stuck in "in" queue due to one "bad"message

2007-02-20 Thread Xueshan Feng
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 15:37 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Xueshan Feng wrote: > > > >We are running mailman 2.1.9. Recently we had a problem that mailman's > >Incoming qrunner died hard, which caused messages accumulated under > >qfiles/in directory. Restarting

[Mailman-Users] Messages got stuck in "in" queue due to one "bad" message

2007-02-20 Thread Xueshan Feng
Hello, We are running mailman 2.1.9. Recently we had a problem that mailman's Incoming qrunner died hard, which caused messages accumulated under qfiles/in directory. Restarting mailman didn't help. We finally identified a message on top of the queue, moved it aside, restarted mailman again, then

[Mailman-Users] Questions regarding mailman tunning FAQ 6.6

2006-12-01 Thread Xueshan Feng
I am looking into ways to improve performance for our mailman server. It currently serves 15,000 mailing list, and the largest list has more than 10,000 members. We are running mailman 2.1.8 with Postfix. We have load spike at 20, and during busy hours, load average is around 10. Messages delays

Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate attachements saved in archive directory?

2006-11-03 Thread Xueshan Feng
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 16:57 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Xueshan Feng wrote: > > > >List's attachments seemed saved twice with different names in archives > >directory. For example, one is "attachement.pdf", another one > >"attachment-0001.p

[Mailman-Users] Duplicate attachements saved in archive directory?

2006-11-02 Thread Xueshan Feng
ringal email. I thought this might have to do with email client, but I tested with Mac MailApp and Linux Firfox, same behavior. Any idea what caused this? Thanks! Xueshan -- ------ Xueshan Feng (aka. Susan Feng) Shared Services, ITSS Stanford University,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass Footer Change

2006-10-30 Thread Xueshan Feng
t around it to feed it with multiple lists. This probably doesn't help much if you don't have login access to the mailman server. We developed a remote command line interface so our list owners can manage their lists via command line without having to login to the server. Xueshan

Re: [Mailman-Users] Majordomo to Mailman migration - how to convertmajordomo's "restric_post" policy?

2006-04-21 Thread Xueshan Feng
On Apr 20, 2006, at 8:53 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Xueshan Feng wrote: > >> However I cannot find a way to carry "restric_post" policy over to >> mailman, that is, if a list allows members from another list to post, >> can mailman be configured to allow that? &

[Mailman-Users] Majordomo to Mailman migration - how to convert majordomo's "restric_post" policy?

2006-04-20 Thread Xueshan Feng
We have 25000 majordomo mailing lists and we started migrating these to mailman. We have a convert script that convert a majordomo list to mailman - for most part, it works well. However I cannot find a way to carry "restric_post" policy over to mailman, that is, if a list allows members from

Re: [Mailman-Users] error log - Failed before cPickle:

2006-02-15 Thread Xueshan Feng
On Feb 11, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> Susan Feng wrote: >>> >>> I noticed the following messages in mailman error log every time >>> when a >>> list is accessed, for example: >>> >>> /usr/local/mailman/lists/email-team/ >>> config.pck.tmp.mailman.Stanford.EDU.13813 >>> Feb 09 09:4

Re: [Mailman-Users] Exchange and attachment

2006-02-04 Thread Xueshan Feng
On Dec 15, 2005, at 6:52 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Susan Feng wrote: >> >> We are having similar problem with mailman 2.1.6 version. Exchange >> users >> receive their email "body as attachment". Other email clients are >> fine. > > Do you have a msg_header and/or msg_footer defined for the list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman in start up scripts?

2005-07-20 Thread Xueshan Feng
Quoting James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't know what to verify. Mailman works fine when I start these two: > /etc/init.d/mailman start > /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl restart > > I have to do it manualy though. Did you do this: update-rc.d mailman defaults That should install the necessary