[Mailman-Developers] What happens with mailman after a crash

[Les Niles]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:39:24 -0800 "Somuchfun" <somuchfun at atlantismail.com> wrote:
>I have a question in regards to mailman's recovery abilities.
>Let's say mailman is running and sending out messages to a large list and
>the machine crashes or is rebooted, does mailman pickup where it stopped? Or
>is the run gone forever?

I've had way too much experience with this lately... :(

Mailman soldiers on just fine.  The problems we've run into are
with some of mailman's files getting corrupted because they weren't
synced to disk when the machine crashed -- the standard problem
with any crash.  I've had to rebuild a couple of list config
databases, and toss out a few corrupted pending pickles.  We plan
to try the synchronous-write option, do backups (!), and maybe even
replace the flakey hardware that's been causing the crashes.

  -les