[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman 2.0.8 qfiles problem]

[Ganeshh]

Hi Ricard

Thanks for your mail.

The problem was with the mail size and i rectified the same.

But one thing, that particular list in which i had mail size restricted 
to 2 MB,  still  guys were sending mails with huge attachments, and that 
was not moderated properly.

In the above case, will the mail still sit on the queue ? or will it sit 
on the queue once the mail is approved?

Thanks
Ganeshh

Richard Barrett wrote:

> At 11:47 25/10/2002, you wrote:
>
>> Hi  Richard
>>
>>
>> I have already posted my problem in the list, but yet to get a reply....
>>
>> I need your help to solve my problem.
>>
>> am running 14 lists on my server , and for the past 1 day, my lists 
>> mails are not delivering to its subcribers...
>>
>> i have around 180 files (mails ) in my qfiles directory and it keeps 
>> growing....
>>
>> i manually stopped qrunner , deleted all files in directory locks and 
>> start qrunner manually, but nothing happened...
>>
>> I need to solve this problem once and for all...
>> kindly let me know... what do i need to do...
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> warm regards
>> Ganeshh
>
>
> Ganeshh
>
> I've been away for a couple of days and only just got your message 
> (and seen the posts and response on the mailman users list).
>
> I notice that you said in one response to Jon Carnes:
>
> At 14:33 25/10/2002, Ganeshh wrote:
>
>> have two 30M files plus few big ones in the qfiles directory...
>
>
> My experience with very large emails like these (and indeed smaller 
> than 30 Mbytes) is that they can bring Mailman to its knees, 
> particularly when the list to which such large postings are being made 
> are being archived.
>
> I'd suggest:
>
> 1. stopping the qrunner
>
> 2. moving very large .msg files and their companion .db files in the 
> $prefix/qfiles directory into some other temporary location
>
> Then restart the qrunner. If my guess about big files is correct, then 
> Mailman will start to clear the backlog of smaller emails.
>
> With my installation, I've stopped allowing very large posts to mail 
> lists. Where possible I get people to put the large files somewhere 
> the other list members can access rather than attaching them to email 
> to a mail list. If the originator  can give access either through NFS 
> (on the local network) or with HTTP from the their public_html 
> directory, they can mail out the file path or URL so that list members 
> can collect a copy of the large attachment if they want to.
>
>
>