Mailman Moderation Queue - recovery possible?
All --
Ah, the joys of actually using the Mailman interface instead of just managing the architecture....I just did a couple hours of moderation queue cleanup for one of my lists and trying to send some of the messages on to my personal account.
I dutifully clicked the button to discard the message, then filled in my personal email address, but forgot to click the check box for 'Additionally forward this message to...' (Possibly because the list is set to Spanish, which I can't actually read.)
Is there a way to restore or access the messages once they have been discarded?
If I were able to get to a backup snapshot of the system, which file would I be looking to restore?
-- Drew Tenenholz
On 07/31/2013 04:34 AM, Drew Tenenholz wrote:
Is there a way to restore or access the messages once they have been discarded?
Assuming you didn't check "Preserve messages for the site administrator", only from some kind of file system backup. If you did check that box it will be in $var-prefix/spam/spam-LISTNAME-dddd.msg.
If I were able to get to a backup snapshot of the system, which file would I be looking to restore?
$var-prefix/data/heldmsg-LISTNAME-dddd with a .pck or .txt extension depending on the setting of HOLD_MESSAGES_AS_PICKLES.
If you can restore the file, you can see the message with bin/dumpdb if it's a .pck or cat if it's a .txt, but it won't appear in the admindb interface unless you do something like <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/hold_again>.
-- 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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