Robert,
This is probably a really dirty way to go about it, but I've done this before and it worked, and without hosing the system. This worked with version 2.1.2. I haven't tried it with 2.1.5, because there's a "discard all marked defer" option, and I haven't let the queue stack up. But I've killed over 4000 held messages at a shot by doing this with 2.1.2.
Go to the mailman/data directory, and delete all heldmsg-yourlistname-*.pck files. Then go to your admindb page. You'll probably still see the listing of all the thousands of held messages. Click "submit all data", and they should disappear.
*Use at your own risk*! This feels like something of a hack to me, but you seem a little desperate. ;-)
-Eric Schmitz
Robert Echlin wrote:
----- 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
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