Razvan Deaconescu wrote:

I've encountered a problem regarding pending messages for the internal mailman list for Mailman.

Each day at 8:00AM, as Mailman admin/owner I was getting a message with the subject "6 Mailman moderator request(s) waiting". The message mentioned accessing the URL "http://${hostname}/cgi-bin/mailman/admindb/mailman". However, accessing it (and typing in the requested password) revealed no pending posts (such as those described in the message).

See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/EoCE>

The latest message was dated 28th of December 2009 (quite a while ago).

About a week ago I decided to uninstall the Mailman instance but that message is still sent each day at 8:00AM. I've reinstalled it, accessed the above URL, but there are still no pending posts.

I've done a recursive grep in /var/lib/mailman (I'm using Debian) for parts of the message (but found nothing). I've checked all cron entries (/etc/cron*, /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*) but found nothing relevant.

Could someone please point me to where those pending requests are held and how can I get rid of them and stop that message from being delivered?

Based on the above, they are probably coming from a different server. Examine the Received: headers of the notice to see where it originates and uninstall Mailman or the list or stop running Mailman's cron/checkdbs on that server.

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