Chris Waltham wrote:
With the exception of 3-4 lists (out of 800+), I let the "make update"
command run so I presume that actually upgraded the lists. I think I
might just delete the holdmsg files en masse, I can't see why
(organizationally) I should need to keep them.
When you delete these files, it is better to use bin/discard as discussed in <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.074.htp> rather than just rm. This is because bin/discard actually removes the held message from the requests.pck file (see below). However, if the heldmsg-* file is an orphan, it won't be removed by bin/discard, so you need to run bin/discard first and then rm any files left.
The problem with just removing the heldmsg-* file is if there are a large number of held messages for a single list, the admindb CGI can time out trying to create the held messages page, and just removing the heldmsg-* files without also removing the request.pck entries won't cure this time out.
I think I did remove
pending_requests.db (or whatever it's called) when I did the upgrade,
but I think it was empty anyway.
You may be thinking of the global data/pending.db file, but this is different. The items in that file if any were moved to the list specific pending.pck file, and they are the confirmation tokens and associated data for actions waiting confirmation, they are not the actions waiting moderator approval which were in requests.db, now requests.pck.
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