[Mailman-Users] MailMan Pending Requests not being removed.

[Mark Sapiro]

Gunville, Vincent wrote:
> Cron is saying that there are 26000 pending requests.
> But when you go into the gui there are 10, or however many come in that
> day.
> Most of them are junk, so you remove them.
> 
> The next day cron sends and email saying there are 26010 requests.
> 
> This is happening for only one list.
> The rest of the lists are working fine.


This problem comes up on the Mailman-Users list from time to time, and 
in every case for which a resolution is reported, the notice is coming 
from a different Mailman instance.

It may be that you have a unique stiuation. The fact that the number 
increments is certainly unusual but my guess is still a parallel 
installation that may also be receiving posts to this list.

Check the Received: headers in the notice to see at what host it 
originates. Then as root on that host, do

find / -name checkdbs -print
find / -name request.pck -print

To see if you can find where these messages are coming from.

You could try to move the lists/<listname>/request.pck file aside for 
this list in case there is some possible corruption there that's causing 
this. It's OK to just move it aside. It will be recreated.

I really doubt that there is any problem with this request.pck. If there 
were, it would show up when you run cron/checkdbs by hand.

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