[Mailman-Users] bounce file questions

Steve Lindemann steve at marmot.org
Tue Feb 12 23:47:27 CET 2008


I have two questions... I've looked at the FAQ and can't find the 
answer.  Not to say it isn't there but searching on the string "bounce" 
I didn't see an answer to either question.


1) Is it safe to delete a file hung up in mailman/qfiles/bounces?

I have one
-rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 3751 Jan  2 07:02 
1199282543.316215+a0fe738c4585516ea7c4b848e2a18442fc616c5c.bak
that I think I can delete (contents are spam anyway)


2) Is it safe to delete a file "bounce-events-*.pck" hung up in 
mailman/data?

I have one
-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman  5764 Jan 24 00:00 bounce-events-03252.pck
that isn't going away.  I've watched the directory and other 
bounce-events files have appeared and disappeared (eventually).


Just out of curiosity I checked the logs and:

# grep 1199282543.316215 /var/log/mailman/*
error.3:Jan 02 07:02:23 2008 (3252) Ignoring unparseable message: 
1199282543.316215+a0fe738c4585516ea7c4b848e2a18442fc616c5c
error.3:Jan 24 08:08:10 2008 (3281) Ignoring unparseable message: 
1199282543.316215+a0fe738c4585516ea7c4b848e2a18442fc616c5c

I'm assuming (and all that entails) that it is safe to simply delete 
these files, but wanted to check with anyone smarter about mailman than 
I'm likely to ever be first.  Thanks!
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