Benjamin Lotto wrote:

I've been using mailman for several years and have recently moved to a
new machine. Something funny happened, and I had a lot of files built
up in the qfiles/* directories. I restarted mailman with

mailmanctl -s -q start

and move everything was cleared out. There are six .psv files in
qfiles/bad and I have no idea what to do with them. I've been poking
around the web and various documentation and can't figure it out.
Help, please?

Using Mailman version: 2.1.12

This is a recent Mailman feature. In older Mailman, when a runner encountered an exception in dequeueing a message, the fact was logged and the message discarded. Now, depending on settings, it may be saved as a .psv file in qfiles/bad/

See the comments in Defaults.py for the settings QRUNNER_SAVE_BAD_MESSAGES, BAD_SHUNT_STALE_AFTER and BAD_SHUNT_ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY.

With default settings, assuming you've got a 2.1.12 Mailman crontab, these files are removed after 7 days.

You can look at them with bin/dumpdb -p to see what's in them assuming they can be unpickled at all. There are also messages in Mailman's error log saying why they are there.

-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

Benjamin Lotto wrote:

I've been using mailman for several years and have recently moved to a
new machine. Something funny happened, and I had a lot of files built
up in the qfiles/* directories. I restarted mailman with

mailmanctl -s -q start

and move everything was cleared out. There are six .psv files in
qfiles/bad and I have no idea what to do with them. I've been poking
around the web and various documentation and can't figure it out.
Help, please?

Using Mailman version: 2.1.12

This is a recent Mailman feature. In older Mailman, when a runner encountered an exception in dequeueing a message, the fact was logged and the message discarded. Now, depending on settings, it may be saved as a .psv file in qfiles/bad/

See the comments in Defaults.py for the settings QRUNNER_SAVE_BAD_MESSAGES, BAD_SHUNT_STALE_AFTER and BAD_SHUNT_ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY.

With default settings, assuming you've got a 2.1.12 Mailman crontab, these files are removed after 7 days.

You can look at them with bin/dumpdb -p to see what's in them assuming they can be unpickled at all. There are also messages in Mailman's error log saying why they are there.

-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan