[Mailman-Users] how to force mailman to process bounces but notsend out anymore emails
Josh Orchard
josh at emediatedesigns.com
Tue Oct 24 18:35:59 CEST 2006
Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Josh Orchard wrote:
>
>> I have many bounces in the thousands from a very large list (800K) that
>> was sent. Will the list was stopped after 500K or so. I would like to
>> stop it from sending any more emails and have it process only the
>> bounced emails and clean up only the bounces.
>>
>> So, basically how to make it only do the -leave emails that were sent.
>>
>
>
> Find Mailman's qfiles directory with subdirectories archive, bounces,
> commands, in, news, out, retry, shunt and virgin.
>
> Any outgoing messages not yet sent by Mailman will be in the out/ and
> or retry/ queues. These are files of the form
> ttttt.ttttt+xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.pck. You can delete these.
>
> Any unprocessed returned bounces will be in bounces/ and any
> unprocessed messages sent to -leave or -request (or -confirm, -join,
> -(un)subscribe) will be in commands/.
>
> Any unprocessed messages created by Mailman such as owner notices will
> be in virgin/.
>
>
So, if I delete the out and virgin all outgoing will be stop and if I
then start mailman back up it will do automatically process the bounces
for me?
Thanks,
Josh
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