[Mailman-Users] Phantom moderation pending requests & heldmsg files

[Chris Waltham]

On May 8, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Chris Waltham wrote:

> On May 7, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
>> Chris Waltham wrote:
>>
>>> Can you think of an easy way to discard all the messages in
>>> request.pck _except those_ which still have tokens remaining in
>>> pending.pck?
>>
>>
>> If you're willing to accept that the only messages that have  
>> unexpired
>> tokens left in pending.pck are those newer than PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE
>> which defaults to 3 days, you can use the method suggested in the FAQ
>
> Just out of interest, how do I check and/or set that variable? I  
> tried looking through list configs for pending_request_life and  
> didn't see it; is it a global setting unless the list owner  
> specifically changes it? I looked in the FAQ and couldn't find the  
> answer, either.

Foolish me!

[mailman at list ~/Mailman]$ grep PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE Defaults.py
PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE = days(3)

So sorry. :-)


Chris