----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Echlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 3:31 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem
> Hi, > I have a problem discarding pending messages for the admin. > > One of our mail lists has accumulated over 10,000 (ten thousand) spam > messages. > The web page to show pending messages, after several minutes, maybe an hour, > still seems to be churning away, so fix methods based on looking at the web > page won't work. ... snipped the verbose stuff the FAQs say to include when posting > What I think I want to do: > DELETE the (appropriate, offending) file!!! > > Actually, shut down /etc/init.d/mailman, and apache. > I should shut down sendmail, too, I expect. > Delete the file (request.pck???). > touch the filename. > chmod to match what it was. > restart stopped daemons. > > Will this work? > Any better ideas? No suggestions in over 24 hours. Should I be asking this on a different list, like maybe the dev list? Robert ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
