We had a mail loop on one of our lists and ended up with over 51k messages in pending (held due to post not form a list member)
Trying to delete them from the web UI will take forever, as the largest pagination you can view is 200 at a time.
Tried to delete them from the Python interactive shell, but it looks like the API times out after a while.
Is there another way to delete all these unwanted held posts?
The problem comes after executing:
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reqs = list(adminlist.held)
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After a couple of minutes it comes back with:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 699, in urlopen
httplib_response = self._make_request(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 445, in _make_request
six.raise_from(e, None)
File "<string>", line 3, in raise_from
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 440, in _make_request
httplib_response = conn.getresponse()
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 1347, in getresponse
response.begin()
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 307, in begin
version, status, reason = self._read_status()
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 276, in _read_status
raise RemoteDisconnected("Remote end closed connection without"
http.client.RemoteDisconnected: Remote end closed connection without response
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 439, in send
resp = conn.urlopen(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 755, in urlopen
retries = retries.increment(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 532, in increment
raise six.reraise(type(error), error, _stacktrace)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/six.py", line 718, in reraise
raise value.with_traceback(tb)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 699, in urlopen
httplib_response = self._make_request(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 445, in _make_request
six.raise_from(e, None)
File "<string>", line 3, in raise_from
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 440, in _make_request
httplib_response = conn.getresponse()
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 1347, in getresponse
response.begin()
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 307, in begin
version, status, reason = self._read_status()
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 276, in _read_status
raise RemoteDisconnected("Remote end closed connection without"
urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response'))
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailmanclient/restbase/connection.py", line 107, in call
response = request(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 61, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 542, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 655, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 498, in send
raise ConnectionError(err, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response'))
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailmanclient/restobjects/mailinglist.py", line 123, in held
response, content = self._connection.call(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailmanclient/restbase/connection.py", line 135, in call
raise MailmanConnectionError(
mailmanclient.restbase.connection.MailmanConnectionError: ('Could not connect to Mailman API: ', "ConnectionError(ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response')))")
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