[Mailman-Users] Shunting - Where Did they Go?

[Lloyd Tennison]

I had a problem and my MTA restart itself automatically.  Mailman threw the following error:(SMTP log)


Aug 27 04:38:41 2004 (26555) All recipients refused: please run connect() first
Aug 27 04:38:41 2004 (26555) All recipients refused: please run connect() first
Aug 27 04:38:41 2004 (26555) All recipients refused: please run connect() first


For the remainder of the list - about 20,000 emails.  I saw files (about six) in the shunt folder.  I waited a couple of hours since I thought Mailman would retry (I also stopped and started Mailman) but to no avail.  I saw the "unshunt" command and ran it.  No errors and it removbed the files from the shunt queue - but then nothing happened again.  No pick up wgere left off, no nothing.  Tried restarting, even recompiling and restarting, but no difference.  Since I am assuming they are gone and the only way to recover if to extract sent ones from the log file - what do I do if this ever happens again?