[Mailman-Users] pending request problem

Thu Oct 9 03:37:38 CEST 2008

Mark,

Cron runs checkdbs every morning at 8AM, but I am an owner of a few of these
lists and I don't get moderator pending notices every day if there is nothing to
do.  Is this an option to set in the individual list configuration?

# At 8AM every day, mail reminders to admins as to pending requests.
# They are less likely to ignore these reminders if they're mailed
# early in the morning, but of course, this is local time... ;)
0 8 * * * /opt/csw/bin/python -S /export/home/mailman/cron/checkdbs

Here's the notice they are receiving.  It says 1 request waiting but nothing is
listed when they go to the web page.

The Corporate_Reporting_Finance at lists.nt.gov.au mailing list has 1
request(s) waiting for your consideration at:

             http://lists.nt.gov.au/mailman/admindb/corporate_reporting_finance

Please attend to this at your earliest convenience.  This notice of
pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily.

Regards,

Alan Rubin
Technician Unix
DCS Midrange Services
Phone: +61 (08) 8999 6814
Fax:      +61 (08) 8999 7493
e-Mail: alan.rubin at nt.gov.au

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                                                                        Subject 
             09/10/2008 10:15 AM         Re: [Mailman-Users] pending request    
                                         problem                                

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.

--
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

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