qfiles/bad is full of files...how do I find out why?
Running this on Debian Lenny, pending an upgrade.
I just discovered that there are hundreds of files in qfiles/bad for some reason. The manual tells me nothing, except some basic installation troubleshooting. So this raises a few questions:
- Any ideas as to what causes this?
- How do I find out the exact cause?
- What is the best way to solve the problem?
-Dennis
Dennis Carr wrote:
For every one of those files, there should be an 'error' log entry saying most likely, "Skipping and preserving unparseable message:".
These most likely result from malformed spam messages. You can look at the entries with bin/dumpdb -p.
Other possible but unlikely messages are "SHUNTING FAILED, preserving original entry:" associated with a traceback, "Unpickling .bak exception:" and ".bak file max count, preserving file:".
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Mark Sapiro wrote:
I was on my way out the door when I sent the above, so here's a bit more.
See the documentation for the settings
QRUNNER_SAVE_BAD_MESSAGES = Yes BAD_SHUNT_STALE_AFTER = days(7) BAD_SHUNT_ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY = None
in Defaults.py and if the setting for BAD_SHUNT_STALE_AFTER has not been overridden in mm_cfg.py and there are files older than 7 days in qfiles/bad, make sure that Mailman's crontab is running cron/cull_bad_shunt.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Dennis Carr wrote:
For every one of those files, there should be an 'error' log entry saying most likely, "Skipping and preserving unparseable message:".
These most likely result from malformed spam messages. You can look at the entries with bin/dumpdb -p.
Other possible but unlikely messages are "SHUNTING FAILED, preserving original entry:" associated with a traceback, "Unpickling .bak exception:" and ".bak file max count, preserving file:".
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Mark Sapiro wrote:
I was on my way out the door when I sent the above, so here's a bit more.
See the documentation for the settings
QRUNNER_SAVE_BAD_MESSAGES = Yes BAD_SHUNT_STALE_AFTER = days(7) BAD_SHUNT_ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY = None
in Defaults.py and if the setting for BAD_SHUNT_STALE_AFTER has not been overridden in mm_cfg.py and there are files older than 7 days in qfiles/bad, make sure that Mailman's crontab is running cron/cull_bad_shunt.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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