[Mailman-Users] pending request problem

[Mark Sapiro]

Alan.Rubin at nt.gov.au wrote:
>
>Mailman 2.1.10.
>
>We have a list that is sending the moderator daily a message about pending
>requests.  When the moderator clicks on the admin link, Mailman shows no pending
>requests.  However, there is a pending.pck file in the directory of the list on
>the Mailman server.  Here are the contents:
>
>[----- start pickle file -----]
><----- start object 1 ----->
>{   '15540c1c834bfb99ef20a9621a0437c182b4d5ef': ('H', 31),
>    '1e79ecd565fa5e2349bdeec5f41506560f8a7104': (   'E',
>
>'corporate_reporting_finance',
>
>'anthony.smith at pfes.nt.gov.au'),
>    '37ec39382577ef6007a990a63c9eadd48c8b2fb5': (   'E',
>
>'corporate_reporting_finance',
>
>'di.trimble at powerwater.com.au'),
>    '46dd36aa9b2098c04413916363b9f70153420587': (   'E',
>
>'corporate_reporting_finance',
>
>'karen.ross at powerwater.com.au'),
>    '4e4faa7381d3b9dd50943813c8b39f2c15a0f888': ('H', 26),
>    '6f13dd1779f3ba010efdeb561f203dd59e1015ed': ('H', 25),
>    '720da6f23ef531826a3ded71d7f074e3af5aedb3': ('H', 21),
>    'b7801bf76362de4aa4ac6d2db9f1cfab6e8c8b51': (   'E',
>
>'corporate_reporting_finance',
>
>'michaela.martins at batchelor.edu.au'),
>    'ca468272da6d506f17983c18576835a1117d8354': (   'E',
>
>'corporate_reporting_finance',
>
>'beverly.whitter at batchelor.edu.au'),
>    'eff52942711894f6c3210e00d62357d0eb42a1d8': (   'E',
>
>'corporate_reporting_finance',
>
>'oddette.dacosta at pfes.nt.gov.au'),
>    'evictions': {   '15540c1c834bfb99ef20a9621a0437c182b4d5ef':
>1223691481.6416359,
>                     '1e79ecd565fa5e2349bdeec5f41506560f8a7104':
>1223606953.9437859,
>                     '37ec39382577ef6007a990a63c9eadd48c8b2fb5':
>1223606953.5659289,
>                     '46dd36aa9b2098c04413916363b9f70153420587':
>1223606954.17202,
>                     '4e4faa7381d3b9dd50943813c8b39f2c15a0f888':
>1223680324.9617939,
>                     '6f13dd1779f3ba010efdeb561f203dd59e1015ed':
>1223677576.544651,
>                     '720da6f23ef531826a3ded71d7f074e3af5aedb3':
>1223606023.4145031,
>                     'b7801bf76362de4aa4ac6d2db9f1cfab6e8c8b51':
>1223606050.2751639,
>                     'ca468272da6d506f17983c18576835a1117d8354':
>1223606952.789958,
>                     'eff52942711894f6c3210e00d62357d0eb42a1d8':
>1223606953.7517281},
>    'version': 2}
>[----- end pickle file -----]
>
>The date on the file is October 8.  Why is there nothing showing on the web
>interface?  How can this be cleaned up/fixed?


The pending.pck has nothing to do with the "n moderator requests" email
or the requests in the admindb interface. The file that contains those
is request.pck.

pending.pck is used by 'confirm' to process confirmations. The 'H'
entries in that file are held messages, but they may have been dealt
with otherwise. The 'E' entries are delivery disabled by bounce
re-enables. the evictions dictionary is expiration times. See
http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/list_pending> for a script that will
show you all that 'interpreted'.

If you are getting daily "n moderator requests" emails and there is
nothing in the admindb interface, the emails are coming from some
other test, backup, whatever installation that is still running a
daily cron/checkdbs.

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