[Mailman-Users] remove messages from Mailman queue

[me at electronico.nc]

On 17/02/2010 09:29, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> me at electronico.nc wrote:
>    
>> One email address was mistyped in a list and I receive tons of emails a
>> day about :
>> Postfix SMTP server: errors from localhost[127.0.0.1]
>>
>> I went to Mailman queue and here is the queue contents :
>>
>>      
> [...]
>    
>> /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/bad:
>> total 16K
>> drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 .
>> drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 ..
>> -rw-rw----  1 list list 4,6K 2010-02-09 12:00
>> 1265677201.538301+ff2998155195d0f6d06604e67777ba8ccfff2cf2.psv
>>
>>      
> [...]
>    
>> /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/retry:
>> total 180K
>> drwxrws---  2 list list 4,0K 2010-02-17 08:35 .
>> drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 4,0K 2010-02-09 12:00 ..
>> -rw-rw----  1 list list 4,8K 2010-02-17 08:35
>> 1265961379.78371+f52f95dafd795b376b6f236266a30656762e9312.pck
>> -rw-rw----  1 list list 4,8K 2010-02-17 08:35
>> 1265962377.1492419+ab429d4da967b4e5d73a49b9ad9c15da63938e4d.pck
>> -rw-rw----  1 list list 3,8K 2010-02-17 08:35
>> 1265963302.2198579+e23759d849358c41e5cb65734c68113e03940d53.pck
>> -rw-rw----  1 list list  53K 2010-02-17 08:35
>> 1266005255.3434069+05885e1413d12056b100ec76122a9ed15fe52aee.pck
>> -rw-rw----  1 list list 5,5K 2010-02-17 08:35
>> 1266181576.168088+374f21f5a8cbeb5d1b634327d8e37f145c3aca06.pck
>> -rw-rw----  1 list list  74K 2010-02-17 08:35
>> 1266183850.9198849+cae961d9f131124aec881c1aca55e7a2405d9f7c.pck
>> -rw-rw----  1 list list 5,1K 2010-02-17 08:35
>> 1266192566.7376809+2c441fed9eccdede5580771ad81d47a2870c6a66.pck
>> -rw-rw----  1 list list 1,5K 2010-02-17 08:35
>> 1266209411.1881809+530cd317167b0a37421ef71f51fd739dbaa4e58f.pck
>>      
> [...]
>    
>> My question is : can I safely manually remove (rm) files from qfiles/bad
>> and qfiles/retry or is there another way to proceed ?
>>      
>
>
> The entry in qfiles/bad is something else. It is either an unparseable
> message (likely spam) or a message that was supposed to be shunted but
> for which shunting failed for some reason. You may be able to see the
> message content with either bin/show_qfiles or bin/dumpdb pointed at
> the file. In any case, there should be an entry in Mailman's error log
> with timestamp "Feb  8 17:00:01" or possibly "2010-02-09 12:00" and
> saying either "Skipping and preserving unparseable message:
> 1265677201.538301+ff2998155195d0f6d06604e67777ba8ccfff2cf2" or
> "SHUNTING FAILED, preserving original entry:
> 1265677201.538301+ff2998155195d0f6d06604e67777ba8ccfff2cf2". In the
> latter case, this may be preceded by another exception and traceback,
> but it is more likely the former.
>
> This message is no longer being processed by Mailman and can be rm'd if
> you wish, although if the cull_bad_shunt cron job is running, the file
> should be automatically removed the first time cull_bad_shunt runs
> after it is 7 days old.
>
> The messages in qfiles/retry can also just be rm'd. You can see the
> undelivered recipients (probably just the one bad one) by running
> bin/dumpdb against the files. If the message still has valid
> recipients, as well as the invalid one(s), see
> <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/remove_recips>.
>
>    
Thanks Mark for your time !
I have just removed the retry/*.pck files and all is OK (no more errors 
from Postfix).
Nicolas Canonne