[Mailman-Users] qrunner getting stuck on very large files

Michael Ghens michael at spconnect.com
Mon Jul 8 20:51:38 CEST 2002


I have demime on my mail lists. I am thinking of putting it on the 
-request part of the aliase. Processing mime mail for -request address is 
playing havoc on my list right now.

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, David Gibbs wrote:

> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:17:27 -0500 (CDT)
> From: David Gibbs <david at midrange.com>
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] qrunner getting stuck on very large files
> 
> Folks:
> 
> I'm running into a problem where qrunner will get stuck when it's trying
> to process very large message files in the qfiles directory.
> 
> Usually, it appears, that it's the result of someone trying to send klez
> to a list (not deliberately, of course) ... but the end result is, qrunner
> stops and the list is no longer processed.
> 
> I can fix the problem by killing the qrunner processes (there are usually
> a few of them), deleting the lock files, and deleting the large msg files
> in the qfiles directory.
> 
> I'd like to put in place some kind of protection against this.
> 
> I've tried putting an anti-klez procmail filter in place system wide, but
> it does not appear to affect aliases.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> david
> 
> 
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