[Mailman-Users] How to clean out pending database?

Jim Garrison jhg at jhmg.net
Tue Sep 11 06:35:17 CEST 2007


Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Just delete the entry from qfiles/retry
Sorry, I don't know where to look for qfiles/retry.  I
did a search of my entire system for a directory named
qfiles but found nothing.  I'm running version 2.1.9.

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> And this in turn would indicate that your MTA is doing DNS verification
> during SMTP from Mailman. If it weren't, it would accept the mail with
> a bad domain and it would do the retries itself and eventually give up.
>
> See
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.011.htp>
> for more on this. It is a performance killer for Mailman. 
>   
www.python.org is rejecting connections right now, but I will
read the FAQ entry when it comes back online and change the
Postfix config.

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