Ok, many thanks I will try to edit switcboard.py first. If there any result I have, I will post the result... and if I get any problem I will ask for help again :) Thanks for your guidance
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> Date: 2008/6/10 Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Fwd: Fwd: How To change queue process method To: Maickel Pandie <maickel.pandie@gmail.com>, mailman-developers@python.org
Maickel Pandie wrote:
My MTA is postfix
Mark Sapiro wrote: "You could also just stop Mailman, deliver a lot of mail and then start Mailman." Thanks I will try that
Also, in the Mailman distribution there is tests/fblast.py which delivers lots of mail to Mailman.
Question again:
- am I right that all of new email who comes to the server are queued in incoming queue by incomingrunner and the step is like this? "new email"----->Incoming queue----->Outgoing queue----> MTA queue ^ ^ ^ Incomingrunner Outgoingrunner ?
No. New mail is piped by the MTA to the mail/mailman wrapper which invokes one of the scripts in the scripts directory to put the message in the appropriate queue. Mail to the list posting address invokes the scripts/post script which queues the mail in the 'in' queue.
IncomingRunner processes the 'in' queue and in the normal case will queue a message to be archived in the 'archive' queue and a message to be delivered in the 'out' queue. ArchRunner processes the 'archive' queue and adds messages to the archive. OutgoingRunner processes the 'out' queue and delivers messages via SMTP to the MTA.
- in what queue to most posibility a long email queue will happen if I do what Mark Sapiro suggested?
Messages will be queued in the 'in' queue and will remain there until you start IncomingRunner.
- can I maintain what email is thrown first between Incoming queue to Outgoing queue?
It is strictly FIFO.
- what runner should I edit if I want to make number 3 happen?
As mentioned before in this thread <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2008-June/020207.html> you would not edit a qrunner. You would edit the Switchboard.files() method in module Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py to return the files in the order you want.
- am I right that switchboard.py is always use when there are email moving from one queue to another queue to maintain FIFO in all of queue in mailman so if I want to change the FIFO I just have to edit switcboard.py?
Yes. The Switchboard class does all queueing and dequeueing and it is the files() method which returns a list of files in a queue in the order that they will be processed.
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