[Mailman-Users] How to force retry queue to try again?

[Richard Johnson]

Thanks, I'll keep this information around for future reference!  In the meantime, the queue was automatically retried and the changes I made to postfix configuration were correct, so the mail was delivered just fine!

(Mailman seems to deliver outgoing list messages to the local SMTP server via "::1".  I was expecting 127.0.0.1.  I wasn't expecting ipv6!  ["Nobody expects ipv6!"])   :)

/raj


> On Aug 6, 2018, at 9:16 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
> On 08/06/2018 07:22 PM, Richard Johnson wrote:
>> I'm trying to find some documentation on how to force my retry ("RetryRunner") queue to try delivery again.  I'll keep searching but thought I'd toss a quick note here as well.  Anyone?
> 
> 
> Prior to Mailman 2.1.26, it processes the queue, sleeps for 15 minutes
> and repeats. There has always been a DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT setting that
> defaulted to 1 hour, but prior to 2.1.26, it was ineffective. The
> current doc for that setting in Defaults.py is
> 
>> # How long should we wait before we retry a temporary delivery failure?
>> # Because RetryRunner sleeps for 15 minutes between processes of its queue,
>> # whatever is put here is effectively rounded up to the next integer multiple
>> # of 15 minutes.
>> DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT = hours(1)
> 
> The way this works is when a delivery fails for a temp failure, the
> current time + DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT is placed in the message's metadata
> and the message won't be retried before that time.
> 
> If your Mailman is pre 2.1.26, or if DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT has been set to
> a very low value, you can restart RetryRunner by sending it SIGINT. That
> should  wake it up to process its queue.
> 
> -- 
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